Courts

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 tirade of abuse was directed at police when they were called to a Dornoch housing estate to deal with a possible disturbance.

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.

"These new appointments are indicative of our firm’s ongoing commitment to investing in the best talent across the country."

The sheriff told him: 'You know you shouldn't behave like this'.

Prosecutors said a man would still be alive today if appropriate safety procedures had been in place at the time of his death.

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.

Lord Uist warned that Justice Secretary Angela Constance’s proposals constituted a 'serious attack upon the independence of the judiciary'

The sheriff had some no-nonsense words to share with the offender.

A courageous woman who helped convict a rapist by making secret recordings has called his latest failed bid for freedom 'pathetic'.

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.