A TEENAGER was released on bail at Jedburgh Sheriff Court last Friday – only to be arrested for an alleged house break-in in Kelso the following day.
Seventeen-year-old McRae Fairbairn, of Bowmont Street, Kelso, appeared from custody at Selkirk Sheriff Court on Monday.
He denied breaking into a house in Albert Place on Saturday and stealing aftershave, alcoholic drinks and foodstuffs while the subject of an ASBO (antisocial behaviour order) and on bail.
His lawyer, Iain Burke, said the case would depend on whether Fairbairn had permission to enter the house as his client had been drinking with the householder earlier in the evening.
Sheriff Donald Corke fixed a trial date for March 7 and put Fairbairn on a home curfew of between 7pm and 7am.