Inverness Sheriff Court hears there was no significant sexual element to the offence.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard how a care home resident choked to death after staffing pressures saw her left unattended at meal time.
A motorist who was stopped by police for having no insurance told them there was no point because he was a disqualified driver.
A 43 year old man has appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court accused of conspiring to sexually assault and rape children.
A 31 year old Nairn man has appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court accused of serious sex offences.
A man who carried out a string of shoplifting in a seven-week spell will be sentenced later this month when he has other matters calling.
Four people have appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court on charges of being concerned in the supply of drugs in the Highlands.
A 40-year-old Inverness man who assaulted a woman in a city centre pub will be sentenced next month.
A retired lorry driver with decades of unblemished motoring misjudged an overtake and almost crashed head-on into another car.
A man who had been abstinent from alcohol for two years slipped off the wagon earlier this year and pestered members of the public in the city centre.
A man reported missing from Glasgow may be heading towards the Inverness or Aberdeen areas by train or bus.
A hospitality worker who moved around Scotland from job to job would get drunk and then abuse his colleagues, Inverness Sheriff Court was told.
A man caught with £200,000 of cocaine has told a judge how he would rather be a good dad to his kids on the outside than be a jailed drug dealer.
Police raided a man's home the day after he downloaded the latest in a series of child abuse images and videos, Inverness Sheriff Court has heard.
A serial offender has been given a chance to stay out of jail as social workers believe the is trying to get his life in order.
Re-cap of this week’s news from Inverness Sheriff Court.
A digger driver will be able to keep his job despite being caught drunk behind the wheel of his car.
A twice convicted drug user is facing jail after admitting his third offence of being concerned in the supply of over £22,000 worth of cannabis.
A road rage trial was interrupted by a heated exchange between the accused and a witness.
The 30-year-old Albanian is awaiting deportation.