Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "courts"
23rd March 2012
It has been a very testing week. Calum, my son, was arrested this week on fire-arms charges. He’s been having trouble with the head teacher at his school and the head found out Calum had weapons he had bought from the web. One of these weapons was a stun gun. Calum realised that it would be best to get rid of the weapons so took them to the police station to hand them in. Unfortunately the police then arrest my son, charging him with importing fire-arms as that is what stun guns are classified here in Scotland. It is a crime that carries a minimum sentence of five years.
As you can imagine Magz and myself were in a panic over all of this, especially when he was held overnight to go to court the next day, Wednesday. Luckily Calum got himself a great lawyer that spoke to the procurator fiscal pointing out that he has never been in trouble before and that he was trying to act in a responsible manor by handing them in. It worked because Calum was released on liberty and the charges not being pressed provided he goes on some courses which we will find out more about once the procurator fiscals office sends us a letter.
Of course he will also have to watch his step and there is always a possibility that this could come back to haunt us. But for the moment he is free which is the main thing. I wasn’t happy that he bought these things though I think now he regrets it himself. I don’t think he’ll make the same mistake.
The Big Man up there was certainly watching over him. That I thank him for as I don’t think it would have turned out so well if he hadn’t. I pray he continues to do so.
As for the head teacher he had called the police so it was luck that Calum beat him to it. We have also been hearing that he has been saying things about Calum that isn’t true, like he had more than one stun gun as well as that he is extremely dangerous and everyone should avoid him. He also put my son on permanent study leave as he doesn’t want him in school.
I would have seen this sort of thing if Calum was constantly in trouble but he isn’t. In fact over the past two years that he has stayed on to get his highers, so he can go to college, he has helped at lots of functions for the school which he got his face in the local paper. As well as that he help out sorting the school computers when there were problems with them. So why is this new head teacher so set against him is a mystery to me. Hopefully he finds some peace and sorts his head out and lets my son continue the last few months of school so he can get into college.
As you can imagine Magz and myself were in a panic over all of this, especially when he was held overnight to go to court the next day, Wednesday. Luckily Calum got himself a great lawyer that spoke to the procurator fiscal pointing out that he has never been in trouble before and that he was trying to act in a responsible manor by handing them in. It worked because Calum was released on liberty and the charges not being pressed provided he goes on some courses which we will find out more about once the procurator fiscals office sends us a letter.
Of course he will also have to watch his step and there is always a possibility that this could come back to haunt us. But for the moment he is free which is the main thing. I wasn’t happy that he bought these things though I think now he regrets it himself. I don’t think he’ll make the same mistake.
The Big Man up there was certainly watching over him. That I thank him for as I don’t think it would have turned out so well if he hadn’t. I pray he continues to do so.
As for the head teacher he had called the police so it was luck that Calum beat him to it. We have also been hearing that he has been saying things about Calum that isn’t true, like he had more than one stun gun as well as that he is extremely dangerous and everyone should avoid him. He also put my son on permanent study leave as he doesn’t want him in school.
I would have seen this sort of thing if Calum was constantly in trouble but he isn’t. In fact over the past two years that he has stayed on to get his highers, so he can go to college, he has helped at lots of functions for the school which he got his face in the local paper. As well as that he help out sorting the school computers when there were problems with them. So why is this new head teacher so set against him is a mystery to me. Hopefully he finds some peace and sorts his head out and lets my son continue the last few months of school so he can get into college.
