Stock image. Credit: Thomas Park/Unsplash A MAN who stole more than £900 worth of alcohol from a Borders hotel has been given a night-time curfew for the next seven months. Dell Geraghty, 24, pleaded guilty to the theft from a lockfast place at Innerleithen’s Traquair Arms Hotel during the early hours of December 9, 2019. A previous hearing at Selkirk Sheriff Court was told how Geraghty was observed on CCTV intoxicated and stumbling around after forcing his way into the hotel. He selected a number of bottles of whisky which came to the value of £920.90, none of which was recovered. Geraghty was ordered to stay within his home in James Hogg Court in Innerleithen between the hours of 7pm and 7.30am and was also ordered to pay £200 compensation to the hotel, to be paid at the rate of £30 a month.
The argument spilled outside and he kept saying he wanted to see the messages. Mr Matheson said the argument continued back in the house with Millen appearing in a room carrying a knife which had his own blood on it. At this point his partner phoned 999 and she tried to leave but as she tried to get into a vehicle Millen tried to prevent her from getting in. When police attended shortly thereafter they found Millen in possession of cannabis which was valued at £295. Millen also pleaded guilty to a charge of stalking involving a previous partner. The court heard he had been in a relationship with the woman for about a year and it had come to an end in September 2019.
Selkirk Sheriff Court A LABOURER pinned his partner to the ground with his foot to her injury during a violent confrontation at a house in the Borders, Selkirk Sheriff Court has been told. James Hamilton, 30, also admitted making threatening and abusive remarks towards the woman at the house in West Linton on October 10. Procurator fiscal Fraser Matheson explained the couple had spent the previous night together drinking and watching television. The police had visited regarding a noise complaint in the area and left the house. But after midnight things became heated between the couple with Hamilton abusive towards her with foul-mouthed insults and calling her an unfit mother”.