A MAN who was still under supervision for assaulting a police officer has again pleaded guilty to threatening, swearing and spitting at police. When police found McAlpine in Scalloway Road just after midnight he was “immediately hostile”, and began verbally abusing them – which “quickly became physical”. However he decided to give McAlpine time to “turn over a new leaf” and prove he had “decided not to continue down his path of lawlessness”. He gave McAlpine a deferred sentence for nine months, to allow him to be of good behaviour. Sheriff Mann told him, however, that he can “expect a substantial penalty” after that time – even if that is not a custodial sentence.