COURT ROUND-UP: Attack on shop worker and racist abuse among this week’s Inverness court business
Inverness Sheriff Court this week heard cases ranging from an attack on a city shop worker to the discovery by police of a drug-dealing den for cocaine and heroin.
Here's our recap of some of the cases that made the headlines.
A teenager who drank daily from the moment he woke up scarred a shopkeeper after he hit him over the head with a bottle of alcohol he had tried to steal.
Dylan Bannister, of Esk Road, Inverness was appearing for sentence at Inverness Sheriff Court after previously admitting assaulting the staff member of Station News in Inverness's Farraline Park on March 15, 2023 by repeatedly punching him on the head and striking him on the head with the bottle to his injury, permanent disfigurement and permanent impairment.
Two teenagers who admitted knife attacks on two youths in Inverness last year, leaving their victims bleeding heavily, have been sentenced to custody.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that 18-year-old Calvin Abbott and a 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, tried to rob a 17-year-old youth of his hooded top at the Raining’s Stairs car park on the afternoon of November 7, 2023.
Their target was slashed on the neck with a Stanley knife by the 16-year-old.
• READ MORE: Teen stabbed in neck in Inverness as duo tried to steal designer hoodie
Police who went to an Inverness property following a noise complaint discovered a drug-dealing den instead.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told that 33-year-old Karlina Paliwoda invited the officers into her Benula Road home when they came to the door on the night of February 2, 2022.
• READ MORE: Inverness drug-dealing den for cocaine and heroin discovered after noise complaint
A non-smoking neighbour was angered when challenged about cigarette ends being deposited in the garden of an Inverness house nearby.
Kyle McQueen was walking home to his Dalneigh Road property on September 2, 2023 when one of the other residents in the block of flats wanted to speak to him about the litter.
• READ MORE: Inverness man receives three-figure fine for racist abuse after confrontation over litter
A married Caithness man who was living two lives seriously assaulted one of his partners to whom he had proposed – because she wanted to know when he was leaving his wife.
Domestic abuser George Harper, of Bremner’s Walk, Wick, had been in a relationship with a woman in Inverness in 2022 and had asked her to marry him just two weeks after they first met – despite him still sharing a home with his spouse.
• READ MORE: Wick man attacked ‘fiancée’ in Inverness after she asked when he was leaving his wife
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