Moray teenager given unpaid work for Elgin mugging

A teenager has been ordered to complete unpaid work for mugging a drug dealer at knifepoint.

Jordan Carnegie previously admitted assault and robbery in connection with the incident, which saw him steal a drug dealer’s phone while wearing a ski mask.

The 19-year-old appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court for sentencing today.

Defending, Robert Cruickshank appealed to Sheriff Gary Aitken not to send his client to detention despite his record.

He said Carnegie had successfully completed an earlier community payback order and added: "Justice could be served by another order as the maximum hours are available to the court."

Sheriff Aitken imposed 200 hours of unpaid work and placed Carnegie on two years of social work supervision.

But he warned the 19 year old: "You have a very short record but it is getting more and more significant and you are getting older.

“The amount of time Mr Cruickshank can use your youth to keep you out of jail is rapidly disappearing."

At an earlier hearing, fiscal depute Alison Young told the court that Carnegie had agreed to meet his victim at TK Maxx at 5pm on February 5 this year, but phoned him to say he couldn't make it.

The man then received another call, from an unknown number, to meet in Thunderton Place.

The fiscal depute added: "He was approached by a man with his hood up and wearing a ski mask so only his eyes were showing and he pulled out a knife, saying 'give me the bag'.”

She told the court that the man "recognised the voice as Jordan Carnegie”.

The 19-year-0ld was then “pushed away”, but managed to take the victim’s phone after it was dropped during the altercation.

Ms Young added that the phone “was worth £50 and Jordan Carnegie ran off with it.”

“It was never recovered," she added.