A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD man who set off a smoke grenade in a Fort William pub was spared a criminal record after Sheriff William Taylor put his actions down to ‘high spirits’.
Alasdair Callum Greens, Kennedy Road, was given an absolute discharge at Fort William Sheriff court on Monday April 24 when the sheriff ruled that because he has been put on pubwatch, meaning he is banned from almost all the pubs in the town for two years, was already ‘quite a punishment’ for a man of his age.
Procurator Fiscal Martina Eastwood told the court Greens had acquired the smoke grenade when he went paintballing on September 11 and had told friends he was planning to set it off in a High Street pub. The court heard Greens was seen on CCTV at 1.39am the following morning diffusing the device on the dance floor of the pub, which then filled with smoke, before the pub was evacuated to allow staff to remove the device.