Crime

A neighbour dispute boiled over when two Ross-shire sisters tried to ‘put matters right’ by approaching the couple next door.

A neighbour dispute boiled over when two Ross-shire sisters tried to ‘put matters right’ by approaching the couple next door.

The Highlands are grappling with the grim reality of County Lines drug operations exploiting vulnerable individuals and wreaking misery.

MacDonald has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has lodged a special defence.

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.