Courts

A WICK man breached a court order banning him from having any contact with children under the age of 16.

Two men’s long-distance holiday trip to John O’Groats ran into trouble after police checked their van’s documents at Berriedale.

A man who threatened his former partner a few months after he tried to frighten a potential witness has avoided prison “by the thinnest of margins”.

A minor motor accident escalated into a road rage episode, Wick Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday.

A young Wick man jailed for seven months for his ‘outrageous’ behaviour at a Thurso supermarket almost had an extra year added to his sentence.

A young man who was resisting arrest spat on a police officer before telling him he hoped he would catch Covid-19.

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.