Unpaid work over Inverness assault but sheriff warns against repeat offending
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A 29-YEAR-OLD Inverness man who upset his wife after she called police following an assault on him was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work.
But Christopher Fraser, of Bruce Gardens, was warned by Sheriff Ian Cruickshank at Inverness Sheriff Court: “Given your record you are sailing close to the wind and a custodial sentence.”
Fraser was also placed under social work supervision for a year.
He admitted threatening behaviour in his home on March 24.
The court heard that there was an altercation between Fraser and another man who punched him in the face.
Fiscal depute Naomi Duffy-Welsh said: “His wife went out to separate them and he began shouting and swearing and made to seek out the other man. His wife phoned the police, officers attended his home and could hear shouting inside.”
The fiscal added that Fraser had shouted at his spouse not to let the officers in but she did. “She was crying and shaking,” Ms Duffy-Welsh said. “He ran out but was found in the garden.”
