Teenager smashed windscreen with bottle 7/7/11
A Stornoway youth who said he was likely to break a curfew order was sent to custody for four months instead when he was sentenced at the town’s sheriff court.
Kenneth John Mackenzie, 17, whose address was given as 10 Murdoch Place, previously pleaded guilty to smashing the windscreen of a taxi cab after hurling a beer bottle across the road.
The court heard the incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday 26th March at North Beach Street in Stornoway town centre.
Mackenzie had also admitted threatening behaviour, shouting and swearing, round the corner at Bank Street on the same occasion.
Sheriff David Sutherland queried why Mackenzie could afford to drink but had failed to pay for the damage.
Lawyer Kevin Macpherson explained the youth had been in custody and only returned to the island last week.
He said Mackenzie believed any tagging order would be too hard to obey. He suggested other type of sentences which would also permit him to keep his freedom
But sheriff David Sutherland stressed custody was the only other option as he was not having him “marauding around town, drinking and causing trouble.”