Rowdy threatened Dingwall Tesco staff and later assaulted man in local park
A 33-year-old Muir of Ord man who threatened to harm a Tesco staff member and his family after being suspected of being about to steal from the supermarket has been jailed for 10 months.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told that Graeme Gates of Balvaird Terrace had been on remand since October 4 after he was arrested for a series of offences committed two days earlier at the Dingwall store.
Sentence was deferred by Sheriff Sara Matheson for a background report after she had been told that following being challenged, Gates lunged towards the employee and attempted to engage him in a fight.
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Later that same day, he assaulted a man in Peffery Park by knocking him to the ground where he repeatedly kicked him on the head and struck him on the body all to his injury.
When he was traced and arrested, he spat on one officer and spat saliva and blood on another, and it struck her arm, the court heard. Gates admitted attempted theft, threatening behaviour and three charges of assault.
