Courts

A 30-year-old man has been arrested and charged following the recovery of drugs with a potential street value of at least £200,000 in Alness.

Two Ross-shire men who injured each other with a bottle in a street brawl reconciled when they found themselves in the same wing of Inverness prison.

Jason Webber spotted the convoy behind him and swerved repeatedly on to the opposite carriageway to prevent them passing him.

Inverness Sheriff Court hears woman just home after giving birth to first child, was confronted by abusive and threatening man.

The victim of a vicious Easter Ross assault by a man and a woman was able to identify his attackers leading to their arrest shortly afterwards.

An electricity company technician was under stress on returning from a 97 hour week and briefly turned to alcohol as his marriage was also in trouble.

His defence agent begged for clemency and said the roofer was at a crossroads in his life.

Ross bottle attack warning: 'If this carries on you will find yourself in prison for a long time'

Driver stopped on Ross-shire road closed due to storm flooding had cannabis in system, court told.

An injured Muir of Ord man who spat on a police officer who came to assist him was fined a total of £2175.

'It is a miracle you didn't kill yourself or some other innocent road user. You have a very poor history of complying with the Road Traffic Act.'

A rapist has been jailed for 13 years after being convicted of sex and physical assaults on three women in the Inverness and Ross-shire areas.

She will learn her fate next month but has in the meantime been disqualified from driving.

A teenager vandalised his girlfriend's Dingwall home and then phoned the police to report himself.

The sheriff said: "If this was two years ago, the guidelines then were an 18-month jail sentence."

A Tain man who repeatedly pestered his former partner after she found a new romance over a year following the split was jailed for 10 months.

Stress over the Christmas period led to a Romanian immigrant and his partner having an argument which ended with him pulling her to the floor.

A 51-year-old Evanton man appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court on three allegations of road traffic offences.

A telephone was thrown at the wall during the incident. The sheriff gave his verdict.

'You were in possession of foul images of children being abused for your own pleasure and I can never fathom why.'