Courts

POLICE recovered heroin worth nearly £300 after carrying out a search of a woman within homeless accommodation in Inverness.

A woman has told police she does not know why she repeatedly makes nuisance calls to them.

An Elgin man today appeared in court charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder

A drink-driver was on his way to visit his mother when he was stopped by police at the Longman Roundabout in Inverness.

A man had to be taken to hospital after admitting to swallowing heroin on an Inverness street.

Inverness Sheriff Court heard a man assaulted his partner by pulling her to the ground and kicking her on the body at their home.

A man on a lifelong restriction of liberty order injured a prison officer when he was taken to Raigmore Hospital after swallowing razor blades.

Portuguese man Christiano Ferreira was convicted of sexually assaulting women in Nairn after a jury trial earlier this year.

A man told his partner he would stab her in her sleep Inverness Sheriff Court heard.

A member of rail staff in Inverness locked herself in an office when she saw a man brandishing a knife on the station concourse.

A man lashed out with scissors after a Good Samaritan went to help another man outside the Nip Inn in Inverness

NSPCC Scotland said the killing was "truly shocking" after Tomas Haining was sentenced to eight years imprisonment today.

Sentencing him to eight years a judge told Thomas Haining no term he could impose would repair the damage he had done.

Thomas Haining, who admitted shaking his 23-day-old baby girl to death, has been sentenced to eight years at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Thomas Haining is set to be sentenced after admitting at the High Court in Edinburgh to killing his daughter, Mikayla.

A DRUG addict was brought to court to face a charge of theft from the WH Smith store in the city’s railway station.

A FISHERMAN attending the Groove music festival at Dores last year was ejected from the event and charged with possession of ecstasy and mephedrone.

A PRISONER sentenced to seven-and-a-half years for attempted murder earlier this year has admitted to being involved in the supply of class A drugs.

A MAN who went into a Tesco store and left without paying for meat and a box set of DVDs has been ordered to carry out unpaid work for the community.

Inverness Sheriff Court heard a woman bought cigarettes using a credit card that was not hers.