A Sheriff wondered what to do with the drunken sailor who appeared before him to admit his fifth domestic offence against the same woman.
A paedophile who said the child he repeatedly raped initiated sex with him has been jailed for 10 years.
Police who discovered a Tain man covered in blood were subjected to threats and insults with one officer getting spat at in the face.
A short drive for food landed a Ross-shire care assistant in trouble with the police because he was more than five times the legal drink drive limit.
The case was deferred for good behaviour until December 12.
An Easter Ross man with a massive cache of bestiality videos has been banned from owning or keeping animals for three years.
Attackers locked up after “violent and appalling” acts.
He also kicked a hole in a wall at the property in North Kessock.
Ex tech worker ran a Highland retreat centre for Christian pastors and missionaries.
The sheriff said: ‘You will be working even harder now. You behaved like a drunken idiot on two occasions.’
‘The accused threatened to get his family to go round and see his neighbours. Police were then contacted.’
The sheriff said he had inflicted a ‘nasty’ injury and called for a report before passing sentence.
He admitted illegal possession of the Class A narcotic.
He also kicked a hole in a wall at the property in North Kessock.
‘He thought the complainer would treat it as a joke but he didn't and clearly he was upset by it and contacted the police.’
Pair of Highlanders caught speeding near Inverness Shopping Park.
An Easter Ross teenager racially abused a McDonald’s employee while telling him to ‘Go back to Africa’.
A Dingwall railway maintenance worker who drove after taking cocaine and then resisted police has been fined and banned from driving.
He failed to disclose to police he was in possession of the needle despite being asked if he had anything sharp in his possession, court told.
Sheriff Macdonald told Reid: ‘It was a difficult experience for the police officers dealing with you. Biting the officers can lead to ajail sentence.’