23-year-old grabbed the worker’s wrists while he was calling police.
24-year-old man admits assaulting woman in Nairn.
She also had her hair pulled and face scratched during the assault.
The 31-year-old was in the city for a court appearance.
The other man appearing in court was from Invergordon.
A son attacked his father after coming to stay with family in North Kessock at Hogmanay after he got told off for letting the pet dog escape.
Sheriff was perplexed about how to sentence 29-year-old.
One employee was struck on the head at the King's Highway/Wetherspoon.
He hinted at having a shotgun, heard Inverness Sheriff Court.
A man whose dog attacked a deer while being used to hunt hares at a Caithness cemetery has become the first to be convicted under new hunting laws.
Pair appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court today.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard a neighbour intervened and took the couple's dog away.
“You are clearly not a fit person to be freed,” sheriff told the teenager.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard the man will have ongoing psychiatric support on his release.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald was told that most of the incidents started innocently on social media but then got increasingly sexualised.
He breached a court order while messaging his ex partner.
On another occasion a different woman picked up a rolling pin to protect herself from the same man.
An Inverness shop worker was struck on the hand with the blades of a pair of scissors by a Ross-shire man who had asked him to leave.
He also assaulted another woman and threatened to inject her with heroin.
The 44-year-old told police on being charged: "They were just words. I went a bit far."