SHERIFF COURT ROUND-UP: Inverness teacher placed on sex offenders’ register, flat fire raising and £22k cannabis haul found
Here’s our recap of some of the cases that made the news from Inverness Sheriff Court this week.
The top story last week was that of an Inverness school teacher who kissed a pupil, told her she was beautiful on Christmas Day and went on walks with her holding hands.
David Vincent (57), a former physics teacher at Charleston Academy - who is now on the Sex Offenders’ Register - sent intimate text messages to the pupil and told her ‘he could not put into words what he thought about her’.
A man who caused damage to a flat in a Highland town through an act of fire-raising and was caught with a knife at Inverness Bus Station will learn his fate next month.
Stephen Dick (24) set fire to a cardboard box in a lane in Dingwall on May 25 this year, Inverness Sheriff Court heard.
A man entered a woman’s house and stood at her bedroom door while she was sleeping.
Krzysztof Zavebski (41) entered his ex-partner’s home in Anderson Street, Inverness after drinking a bottle of whisky to drown his sorrows between August 9 and 10.
A man was caught behind the wheel of a car while over three times the drink-drive limit.
Gvido Priedols (32) was sitting at the wheel of the parked car at the Premier Inn in Millburn Road on April 27.
A twice convicted drug user is facing a jail term after admitting his third offence of being concerned in the supply of over £22,000 worth of cannabis.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told that Derek Pollock (45), of Carn Gorm Terrace, Inverness, also had £9470 in cash in his possession and at his home when police searched it on May 6 last year.
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