COURTS

Man to stand trial for attempted murder

An accused is to stand trial charged with trying to kill a man – including hitting him on the head with a microwave oven.

A SHERIFF was shocked at the "appalling" record of road traffic offences when a 37-year-old Wester Ross man appeared from custody today.

The hearing was in connection with a break-in at the Co-op in Telford Street and the pair made no pleas to the charges.

Man admitted to four charges after police detained him at Raigmore Hospital.

A man told social workers he was being “stupid” after an alcohol and drug fuelled tirade towards police.

A FISHERMAN who suffers from a health condition took cannabis to help alleviate his symptoms.

A Dingwall man who was involved in two disturbances and threatened police was jailed for a total of six months at Inverness Sheriff Court.

A supermarket worker who sexually assaulted two teenage girls after befriending them on Snapchat has avoided a jail sentence.

A man who wasted police time by falsely claiming to have murdered a man has had his sentence deferred again at Inverness Sheriff Court.

A JURY convicted a Ross-shire teenager of a stabbing after their numbers were depleted due to ill health and Covid.

A SHERIFF told a Ross-shire man with five previous convictions for domestic abuse he was close to being jailed after another similar offence.

A 69-year-old man was placed under 18 months social work supervision after admitting threatening behaviour with an axe towards two teenage boys.

Three families were attacked by two small dogs who had been let loose without supervision.

A chef was angry when his motorbike was damaged in a collision with a van, so he later vandalised the vehicle in retaliation.

A teenager who slashed a man in the face because he believed he had been sexually assaulted by him has been sent to detention for 10 months.

A drug addict who bit a police constable and attempted to bite nursing staff has been placed under a restriction of liberty order for six months.