Crime

The sheriff told the Dingwall man: ‘Your record of domestic abuse is appalling.’

The man, who also faced a charge of possession of a bladed item, will appear again within the next eight days.

A woman accused of murdering a man in a Ross-shire village told a court today that her partner had attacked the alleged victim before his death.

A Dingwall man who carried out a shoplifting spree over seven months and stole over £1200 worth of goods will be sentenced early next year.

A man will appear in court tomorrow following an alleged serious assault in an Easter Ross town yesterday.

Police had to drive at more than 100mph to catch up with a motorist driving at excessive speed.

An alleged murder victim was "very, very thin" and had sustained fractured ribs and internal injuries before his death, a court heard today.

A man who is said to have been kept in “servitude” did “almost everything” for the couple who allegedly murdered him, a court has heard.

A man caught driving while he was disqualified will be sentenced next month.

A police officer was spat on by a man that he and two colleagues had gone to arrest on a warrant.

Police are appealing for information after racist graffiti were found in Tain last weekend.

A man and woman have denied committing a murder in a Highland village and holding the alleged victim in servitude for almost two years.

A man who was about to be searched by police failed to tell the officers that he had an uncapped needle in one of his pockets.

A police constable was savagely attacked and had clumps of her hair pulled out by a man when she and a colleague went to arrest him at his home.

A 60 year old Wester Ross man who had four drink driving convictions was spared a jail sentence after running up his fifth.

Two reported break-ins to commercial premises in an Easter Ross town earlier today have prompted an appeal from police.

An Ullapool businesswoman and her husband abused their Polish neighbours who they resented after they moved in next door to their Dingwall home.

Thieves have broken into a popular shop and café in Sutherland.

Stewart admitted culpable and reckless conduct and was placed on acommunity payback order with one year of social work supervision.

A 26-year-old Easter Ross man was congratulated by a sheriff for becoming a father just days earlier - and then banned from driving for a year.