A Thurso man has admitted having deliberately sparked a bomb scare he knew to be false, at two commercial premises in Inverness.
A young man apologised to a sheriff for subjecting him to a tirade of abuse at a previous hearing.
Wick Sheriff Court heard about a man who broke into his brother's house with intent to steal.
A Thurso man with a record a sheriff described as 'shocking' has been jailed for eight months.
Wick Sheriff Court also heard that Brendon Stevens threw a brick at the woman's car during an argument that "got out of hand".
A MAN who threatened his former partner and tried to frighten a witness has claimed she was partly to blame for his actions.
A former Thurso funeral parlour employee picked up a hammer when he received a late-night knock at the door, Inverness Sheriff Court heard today.
A Caithness man unleashed a tirade of abuse at Sheriff Andrew Berry, who described the outburst in court as “outrageous and disgraceful”.
A convicted sex offender wanted to buy a train ticket home – but all he got was a ticket back to prison.
A WICK woman who tried to set herself alight in the backyard of the local police station has been made subject to a drug treatment testing order.
WICK Sheriff Court heard how a man threatened his former partner having tried to frighten a witness in another related case five months earlier.
A 28-year-old Thurso man appeared via video link from custody at Inverness Sheriff Court on Monday and admitted assaulting his partner.
THE county's sheriff has heard about a Wick prisoner's alarm on being told that two cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed in the jail.
A WARRANT has been issued for the arrest of a Plymouth man who failed to turn up for his trial on a series of charges.
A COURT heard how a Wick man scorned a final chance to co-operate with social workers by walking out of a meeting with one of them.
A MAN who stole a brand new £40,000 Jaguar from an Inverness garage to get home to Birmingham was jailed for eight months.
Sheriff Andrew Berry received the compliments of the season from an unexpected source... a man he was about to sentence.
AN elderly woman banned from seeing her husband after she force-fed him with water will be able to share in some Christmas celebrations with him.
A MAN has appeared in court following a drug seizure by police at the Gills Bay ferry terminal.
A WOMAN'S actions in driving dangerously while more than four times the legal alcohol limit could have had "much more serious consequences".