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.
A Ross-shire man who was storing and selling cocaine from his home was spared a prison sentence at Inverness Sheriff Court today.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald said: "It was motivated by greed."
Accused heard saying: 'You won't want to mess with me.'
A Ross-shire hotelier showered gifts, including sex toys and lingerie, on a teenage girl for over four years in exchange for indecent photos of her.
A Muir of Ord fisherman was caught by police with a knife in his car and £70 worth of cannabis.
The former chairman and treasurer of a popular small Black Isle museum has admitted embezzling almost £19,000 from it over three years.