Courts

Police investigating a report of a late-night incident at a Wick house were confronted by a bare-chested man who was anything but co-operative.

A WICK man is alleged to have cleaned potential evidence after committing a serious assault.

A repeat offender whose life was said to have been “on a downward spiral” for the past two years has been urged to man-up.

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 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.

CRIMINAL courts in the Highlands are creaking under the strain of the Covid pandemic – after the number of trials was slashed by up to 75 per cent.

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.

Operation Ruling netted large quantities of 'illegal substances' and led to violent criminals being arrested including one caught with a sword.

Sheriff Andrew Berry received the compliments of the season from an unexpected source... a man he was about to sentence.