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  • Man fined £150 for two homophobic rants in Shetland pubs

    Man fined £150 for two homophobic rants in Shetland pubs

    A man who admitted shouting homophobic abuse, whilst drunk, has been fined £150. Twenty-two-year-old Ellis Birnie, of Sandveien, Lerwick, was fined £150 after he pleaded guilty to behaving “in a threatening or abusive manner” in Lerwick, Shetland, in Scotland. He made homophobic remarks according to a witness who said that the accused had made “derogatory […]