INVERNESS SHERIFF COURT ROUND-UP: Violence against pregnant women and sexual assault among recent court business
Here is our round-up of the most prominent cases at Inverness Sheriff Court from the past week:
A 32-year-old drug addict who had several partners over an 11-year period during which he assaulted two of them when they were pregnant and threatened to inject a third woman with heroin has been jailed for a total of 40 months.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald was told the harrowing details of how Greg Stewart, a prisoner on remand at Perth, but who has connections with Alness and Inverness, abused the trio by assaulting them, threatening them, and calling them derogatory names in fits of temper.
A brief encounter in an Inverness public house led to a woman being sexually assaulted in her own home.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that the woman invited 25-year-old Kyle Miller, of Great Northern Road, Aberdeen and others to go back to her Inverness flat to help her decorate it after meeting them in Wetherspoons on October 26, 2023.
• READ MORE: Wetherspoons encounter led to Aberdeen man sexually assaulting woman in Inverness home
Celebrating Christmas proved costly for a delivery driver who drank too much and was then persuaded to go into work to carry goods to Ross-shire customers.
Sam Cumming tried to get the day off but was refused, and he got behind the wheel, only for police to be informed anonymously that he was suspected of drink driving.
• READ MORE: Highland delivery driver persuaded to drive despite ‘drinking all night’
A woman threw her mobile phone at a police officer’s head outside an Inverness rehab facility.
Holly Mackay (27) had returned back to Beechwood House in Old Perth Road on February 28, when she was told she could not come back in.
• READ MORE: Police officer targeted outside Inverness rehab facility
An uninsured and unlicensed driver who was caught by police driving a van has been banned from driving for five months and fined £580.
Digger operator Gavin Thomson (35) of Townlands Park, Cromarty appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court and admitted the two offences.
• READ MORE: A9 driver from Cromarty was uninsured and unlicensed
