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A “total menace” who deliberately stepped out in front of moving traffic is beginning a 16-month custodial sentence. Nathan Hilditch, 20, of Horseshoe Close in Virkie was handed the jail term after sheriff Philip Mann indicated he had lost all patience.

A former Ness resident was acquitted of raping two women on Friday as appeal judges slashed a seven-year jail term imposed on him. Kenneth Harper, 33, formerly of Chateau Duplia, Virkie, was originally found guilty of carrying out on the sex crimes in ...

But judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh quashed his convictions for two charges of rape and sentenced him to three years imprisonment in the wake of the ruling. The 33 year old, formerly of Chateau Duplia, Virkie, had his sentence ...

He also pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, banging on doors and windows and entering a private house at Summerside in Virkie on 9th January. A separate charge was that he smashed two windows in the house – for which he ...

A rapist has been jailed for seven years after attacks on two women in Shetland. Kenneth Harper, 33, from Virkie, Shetland, was told by judge Lord Boyd at the High Court in Glasgow that he was a “manipulative” man who had offended over the course of a ...

A man who raped two former girlfriends was branded "a danger to women" as he was jailed for seven years. Kenneth Harper, 33, from Virkie, Shetland, was also "manipulative" of women he became involved with, judge Lord Boyd said. Sentencing Harper at ...