Courts

POLICE were told to abandon a car chase on safety grounds when the vehicle they were pursuing turned into a housing area.

A LEISURE supervisor who head-butted a police officer as he was being removed from a pub has been ordered to pay his victim compensation.

A FORMER soldier has been fined and banned from driving after admitting being drunk in charge of a vehicle in a shop car park.

A TEENAGER who struck a door steward with a glass at a city centre pub has been ordered to pay her victim £200 compensation.

A DRUG dealer who has already served a two-year jail term has been jailed again after admitting being concerned in the supply of cannabis resin.

A WOMAN who stole a bank card went on a £5000 spending spree before removing a further £1200 from ATMs in Inverness and Muir of Ord.

A request to formally suspend the registration of an Inverness care home has been granted.

A MAN arrested after a family funeral has been given a community payback order.

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.