In a legal first for the Western Isles, if not Scotland, an electronic signal will alert the authorities if an offender enters an exclusion zone.
Normally, tagging orders set by the courts stop people from leaving their home.
But now an electronic exclusion zone will be established around a house on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides to keep an offender out. The innovative order was made by Sheriff David Sutherland at Stornoway Sheriff Court.
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