Courts

A teenager who didn't like the way a pub customer spoke to his girlfriend and head-butted him was ordered to pay his victim £250 in compensation.

Police had to repeatedly avoid being spat at by a man arrested following a report of suspicious activity.

A SHERIFF has called for a psychiatric report on a man who gave a false bomb alert at two businesses in Inverness.

A 39-year-old machine operator has been fined £840 and banned from driving for 14 months.

TWO women and one man appeared in court this week to face charges.

Police officers had to help a man walk to their vehicle after he was arrested for a collision in Nairn.

A single punch by a man left his former workmate – who was also his girlfriend’s former partner – with a broken jaw.

An Inverness woman has been awarded cash to pay for a lifetime supply of hearing aids after bosses failed to protect her from contracting tinnitus.

Two Inverness men who repeatedly punched and kicked another man in broad daylight have each been jailed for nine months.

A 21-year-old woman spat in the face of a police constable and dislocated the shoulder of another in a struggle with them.

Two drivers already acquitted of dangerous driving were back in the dock, facing the same charge of racing their pals when one of them was killed.

A NAIRN woman who assaulted two nurses who were treating her has been fined £320 at Inverness Sheriff Court.

A man who confronted two lorry drivers and then armed police with a replica AK47 has been jailed for 18 months.

A 57-year-old man behaved "like a petulant child" and threw a clock at his elderly mother because she poured his whisky into a bin.

UKIP candidate Ramsay Urquhart had been living with his parents until two weeks before his death, aged 33, when he moved to London to find a job.

A SHERIFF sent a stern message to drug dealers in the Highlands by sending a 21-year-old Merseyside man to prison for a year.

Christina Anderson left her 36-year-old partner with a scar above his eye after striking him in the home.

A former Inverness businessman who sent his ex-partner "appalling" What’s App messages was told by a sheriff that he should be jailed.

A grieving mother has described her family’s anguish after the reckless driver who killed her son was released from prison early.

A 30-YEAR-OLD man who assaulted two women in an Inverness property was ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid community work.