INVERNESS SHERIFF COURT ROUND-UP: Former police constable jailed after threatening to kill policewoman
It was busy in Inverness Sheriff Court in the past week:
Former police constable - jailed after threatening to kill policewoman
A neighbour from hell who threatened to kill his neighbours and hinted at having a shotgun has been jailed for two months.
Former police constable Donald Bain, of Inverness, appeared for sentence at Inverness Sheriff Court and was told by Sheriff Gordon Lamont: "The court's patience is at an end. I note your similar previous convictions over a period of years which must have been deeply upsetting for your neighbours."
The sheriff calculated at least seven or eight earlier offences which involved Bain in similar disruptive and abusive behaviour and on one of those occasions, he spoke about a shotgun and called his neighbours names during a tirade of abuse before threatening to kill them.
The 73-year-old had previously admitted a charge of threatening or abusive behaviour committed on December 14 last year, which was less than a year after he threatened the brother of one of his neighbours with a knife.
The latest incident involved a drunk Bain again hurling abuse at another neighbour whom he believed to be a police constable.
Inverness court hears Nairn sex pest exposed himself to girl and sent nude photos to 5 teenage women
Five teenage women and a girl were pestered over a four-year period by a Nairn sex pest who demanded nude photos and sent explicit images to them uninvited.
In the dock at Inverness Sheriff Court was 28-year-old Codey Masson, of Ord View Brae, who had a previous conviction for a similar type sex offence committed during the same time frame of between August 2015 and August 2019.
He admitted six charges in total, one of engaging in sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 and five others of communicating indecently with the women and sending photos of male private body parts to them and occasionally exposing himself to some of his victims.
Inverness bus passenger who terrified woman with throat-cutting gesture is jailed
A bus passenger who terrified a woman on a journey through Inverness by staring at her while drawing his finger across his neck as if to suggest he was cutting her throat has been jailed.
Brian Robertson was appearing by video link at Inverness Sheriff Court after previously admitting charges of threatening behaviour, assault to injury and refusing to give his personal details to police when required to do so.
Sentence had been deferred for a background report on the 43-year-old who was jailed for 12 months by Sheriff Gary Aitken. It was backdated to the date of Robertson's remand on August 2 last year.
B&M Inverness shop worker attacked by Alness man
An Inverness shop worker was struck on the hand with what was understood to be the blades of a pair of scissors by a Ross-shire man who had been asked to leave.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told that 29-year-old Scott Miller, also known as Lapsley, of Kirkside, Alness was already serving a jail sentence on other matters, so Sheriff Gary Aitken imposed a £840 fine with no time to pay.
