Crime

An 18-year-old man has been charged in connection with a road traffic offence following a fatal crash on the A9 near Aviemore.

Accused says: "I didn't know what I was going to do but I felt total darkness.”

Skye murder trial witness: ‘He said he was going to sort out John Don and when he did he was going to go out in a blaze of glory.’

Thieves have stolen a number of cars after drivers left them unattended to defrost amid the ongoing cold snap, police have warned.

A dog owner talked about his anguish and delight after his dog was stolen at a Black Isle truck spot and found a few days later in Elgin.

Finlay MacDonald said he was humiliated after John MacKinnon assaulted him in 2013 and his father had to intervene to stop him getting battered.

A Glasgow man has appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court and made no plea to five charges alleged to have taken place in Ross-shire.

A retired osteopath disarmed a former patient of a gun after the man shot his wife and him at their family home, a murder trial heard.

A look back on a variety of cases from Ross-shire dealt with at Inverness Sheriff Court over the past few days.

A courier scam which conned an Inverness resident out of a five-figure sum of cash has led to a police warning to Highland residents to beware.

The prosecutor said: ‘I mean no criticism of anyone involved but let me ask you this: did you consider an attempt to stop the Subaru at any point?’

The mother-of-six said she caught her husband in her arms as he was collapsing: ‘I was just screaming in horror.’

His wife said she assumed ‘it was just talk’ adding her husband was ‘quite a ranty person’.

The court heard how the incident unfolded after police pulled over a car near Conon Bridge.

Finlay MacDonald is also accused of attempting to murder two people in the Ross-shire village of Dornie.

He admitted being over three times the drink-drive limit in Dingwall and then didn’t cooperate for background reports.

Police have been alerted to a reported act of vandalism in Dingwall on Remembrance Sunday.

A man and woman have been jailed for a total of 10 years and nine months for running an extensive trafficking operation for sexual exploitation.

A 33-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman have been charged after their dogs attacked sheep in Hilton, police have confirmed.

Joyce tried to present himself as a friend of Mr White - but a post mortem revealed he had in fact died as a result of injuries he had inflicted.