A youth football coach denied he ever sexually assaulted any of the youngsters he had befriended, but accepted he slept in the same bed as them.
His defence agent said first offender Bound had 'suffered a kind of brain fog and was ashamed and embarrassed about what he had done.
A youth football coach turned his attention to another younger boy when the player he befriended stopped going to stay with him, a court heard.
A boy was abused by his football coach for years after joining a local soccer team, a jury has been told.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald described him as having "a significant role in the drug trade".
He was stopped TWICE at the same spot – weeks apart – and found with drugs in his system.
The sheriff told him: 'You know you shouldn't behave like this'.
An experienced fish farm worker drowned after he was crushed between a boat and a barge as he tried to disembark a moving transfer vessel.
The sheriff told his defence agent: 'He is in a very difficult position'.
"Clearly this is not reasonable behaviour in a civilised society and he wants to apologise for his actions which he acknowledges were unreasonable."
He will earn his fate at a fresh appearance after reports have been tabled.
The sheriff had some no-nonsense words to share with the offender.
Claims to police that the car had been stolen were proved to be false after a DNA check.
The 66-year-old doesn't intend to drive again, according to his solicitor.
A Ross-shire woman who kicked her heavily pregnant daughter in the abdomen has given a warning by a Highland sheriff.
A woman of travelling people origin was so upset by rogue parkers in her Black Isle community she scratched 'gypsies' onto the outside of a caravan.
Victim spent 22 days in hospital – most of it in intensive care – as doctors battled to save his life.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald told the court: "[This] involved planning and you put the people who work here and members of the public at risk."
Data shows the Highlands came in seventh.
A shopper was knocked unconscious and seriously injured following a violent altercation in an Inverness retail car park.
