Courts

Police stopped Steven Anderson after receiving a tip-off and tests revealed he was more than seven times the legal drug limit.

The mother of a Wick toddler killed in a devastating car crash in Caithness has said it is “shocking” that the driver was not jailed.

A man assaulted two of his ex partners nearly four years apart during disagreements, the sheriff at Wick heard last week.

Drunken Wick man Kyle Miller abused a Tesco assistant and piddled in a police cell after being arrested, the town’s sheriff court heard on Thursday.

Police were quickly on the trail of a road accident after the vehicle beamed the location to them from its black box after the airbag was activated.

A Thurso man who breached a restriction of limit order has been jailed for six months.

A three-times-the-limit drug driver was fined £400 and banned from driving for a year at Wick Sheriff Court on Wednesday.

A Lybster man has been jailed for eight months for an attack on a neighbour.

A Reay man banned from seeing his partner hid under a baby’s cot when police called at her house, Wick Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday.

A tip-off prompted police to locate and stop Pamela Miller, who failed a roadside breath test.

A Watten man has admitted sending a woman sexual images of himself on WhatsApp.

A sheriff has ordered the arrest of a Faroese man who failed to turn up in court to face charges of assault and threatening or abusive behaviour.

A sheriff has ordered the arrest of an Aberdeen man who is alleged to have killed a cat with an airgun as part of abuse towards his partner.

A woman whose careless driving caused the death of a Wick toddler has avoided a custodial sentence.

An elderly Sutherland man was snared by paedophile hunters after he indecently communicated with someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl.

A Wick man who refused to identify the driver of a car involved in an accident was fined £400 at Wick Sheriff Court on Wednesday.

A Sutherland woman who drove away after an accident she caused was fined £200 at Wick Sheriff Court.

A retired civil engineer who overtook a driver when it was unsafe to do so has been fined £500.

Police stopped Andrew Cabrelli near the entrance to the Tesco supermarket at Wick after a check revealed he had no insurance.

A Wick man is facing a string of charges including police assault, threatening or abusive behaviour, and possession of an offensive weapon.