Trial of Brora man postponed after witnesses fail to turn up
Published: 09:00, 12 July 2022
A NEW trial date has been set for a Brora man accused of breaching a non-harassment order.
Steven Beaumont Sutherland had travelled up by train for his trial which had been due to go ahead at Wick Sheriff Court yesterday.
But the hearing did not proceed after two Crown witnesses failed to turn up.
Sheriff Ian Miller issued warrants in respect of both, with the trial re-scheduled for Tuesday, August 23.
Twenty-eight-year-old Sutherland, of Fascally Cottages, denied breaching the non-harassment order on September 11, 2021 by contacting his former or ex partner in Lybster when banned from doing so by an order granted at Tain Sheriff Court in November 2020.
He further denies committing the breach, while on bail.
