Courts

An Easter Ross man who abducted a former partner with the assistance of his new girlfriend was sentenced to the maximum 300 hours of unpaid work.

"He never left the confines of his garden, was told not to be so stupid and go back inside which he did."

Drug-driver caught by police on mobile patrol.

A 38-year-old Alness man has appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court accused of an assault to severe injury and impairment.

Sheriff Gary Aitken branded the behaviour as "repugnant and a truly appalling course of dishonest conduct".

A drunk Dingwall man had no recollection of why police arrested him and found a cutlery knife which he didn't know was in his belt.

Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Renee and Andrew MacRae will run over two nights on the BBC.

A woman who crashed a car into an Inverness building injuring three men has been told to expect at least four years behind bars when she is sentenced.

A woman has admitted lesser charges of dangerous driving after first going on trial for attempted murder at the High Court in Aberdeen.

A woman charged with attempted murder has heard she wanted her partner to die hours before the car they were in smashed into a wall.

A new sheriff is set to start at Tain Sheriff Court next month.

A neighbour dispute ended in bloodshed when one took an axe and struck the other on the arm in a Black Isle community.

A Swiss national has appeared in private in court on a charge of causing serious injury by dangerous driving in Ross-shire.

A 23-year-old labourer set fire to the shower room within his homeless accommodation because he was in “a bad mood”.

"It was not particularly pleasant."

A request to try on a top hat being worn by a Dingwall pub customer led to two men coming to blows.

CCTV captured a Ross-shire man flailing his arms about in Dingwall's High Street, prompting the dispatch of police to discover what was wrong.

The sheriff acknowledged his difficult upbringing but issued a warning over jail as she passed sentence.

A doorstep altercation in a Ross-shire village led to court and a charge of assault.

A senior lawyer wants the government to consider a rehabilitation and educational scheme for drug users, as is afforded to drink-drivers.