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Row in Highland supermarket leads to fight and year in prison


By Andrew Dixon

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Court. Inverness Justice Centre nigfht locator. Picture: Gary Anthony.
Court. Inverness Justice Centre nigfht locator. Picture: Gary Anthony.

A dispute in an Easter Ross supermarket led to a “wrestling match” in the street between a disabled man and another customer.

Inverness Sheriff Court was told that although no punches were thrown, Zachariah Rawluk (51), of High Street, Alness, spat on his opponent three times, twice making contact.

He admitted assault to injury committed on October 9 last year in Alness High Street.

Rawluk also admitted twice defecating in a police cell in Burnett Road Police Station in Inverness on October 10 and 11.

He was jailed for 12 months, backdated to October 12.

Rawluk’s solicitor Willie Young explained that his client had allowed a couple of customers to be served ahead of him but an argument developed with another customer.

Sentencing Rawluk, Sheriff Margaret Neilson told him: “Spitting at people is never acceptable and will be treated seriously by any court and neither is defecating in your cell.”

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