Courts

A 20-year-old man appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court today following a high-speed car chase through Inverness.

A promising young boxer attacked a teenage boy in Inverness city centre and stole his cigarettes and lighter because he was too young to smoke.

A serial thief raided an Inverness hotel and stole a charity tin and belongings from residents, including a woman’s make-up and her clothing.

An Inverness man has been fined £300 after admitting being in the company of a woman, in breach of a bail condition.

A family woke up in the middle of the night to find a strange man sitting in a game chair in a bedroom.

NEARLY a quarter of the residents at a coronavirus-hit care home have now died – after reports of an eighth fatality emerged this morning.

A CARE home hit by a Covid-19 hotspot in which seven people have died could lose its registration after the Care Inspectorate started legal action.

A civil case involving a £110,000 debt by a former Inverness company was dealt with via video link for the first time.

A 48-year-old is believed to have become the first man in Scotland to be jailed for endangering police lives by coughing in officers' faces.

A PENNILESS homeless man stole two frozen pizzas from an Inverness shop because he was hungry.

An Inverness Sheriff Court commercial case provides the first opportunity to test the use of virtual court hearings in Scotland’s sheriff courts.

Police were on the look-out for an Inverness man when they saw him walking on Carse Road and arrested him, Inverness Sheriff Court heard.

An Inverness man who attacked a fellow pub customer when he left for a cigarette and stamped on his head several times was jailed for 16 months today.

A HOMELESS man who was on a court-ordered curfew between 7pm and 7am waved to police when they passed him in a patrol car in the city centre.

A MAN who called the police to say he had thoughts of murdering or torturing people was released on bail.

An Inverness teenager was sent to detention for nine months after admitting driving dangerously on a country road.

The nation is grieving, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said, as the number of deaths from Covid-19 exceeded 20,000.

A man was annoyed when he was denied permission to sit beside another man on a public bench a court has heard.

A drug addict who committed a series of thefts in Inverness and elsewhere has been given a chance to avoid a jail term for his offending.

A 34-year-old Inverness man was involved in a three hour stand-off with over two dozen police whom he threatened to stab if they came near him.