Courts

A MAN who went into a Tesco store and left without paying for meat and a box set of DVDs has been ordered to carry out unpaid work for the community.

Inverness Sheriff Court heard a woman bought cigarettes using a credit card that was not hers.

man and woman will be sentenced next month for an assault at Inshes Retail Park.

A sex attacker who pounced on a backpacker after taking her to Culloden Battlefield has been jailed for five years.

SIX members of a gang who planned to flood Inverness with drugs were today jailed for a total of 25 years – thanks partly to tip-offs to the police.

A GANG who planned to flood Inverness with more than £600,000 of heroin, cocaine and Etizolam has been sentenced to 25 years collectively in prison.

A DRUG addict who was spotted inside two unlocked cars in two days had sentence deferred for a background report this week.

POLICE investigating the disappearance of Renee MacRae and her son Andrew in 1976 have charged a man (77) in connection with their deaths.

AN Inverness fugitive who is facing 24 charges, including rape and sexual assault, has been returned to Scotland from America.

A MAN threatened to kill a woman and dispose of her body by feeding it to pigs, Inverness Sheriff Court has heard.

A RESIDENT in a homeless hostel barricaded himself into his room before smashing a fire alarm.

YOUTHS who were dealing in drugs from a house in Inverness were warned they know what they could expect when they are sentenced later this month.

A DRUG dealer found in possession of cocaine with a potential street value worth more than £13,000 in Inverness has been jailed for 14 months.

A TEENAGER was warned he could be sent to detention after he admitted robbing a 70-year-old woman.

CHILD welfare advocates have slammed a "dangerous and predatory abuser" after he was jailed for rape and sex assaults in Inverness.

A REGISTERED sex offender who raped a 15-year-old girl and who also abused a young woman with learning difficulties has been sent to prison.

COCAINE, cannabis and MDMA with a street value of £140,000 were seized by police near Inverness last night.

TWO thugs used a vacuum cleaner to try and kill a friend in a brutal murder bid.

AN Inverness man found in possession of more than £12,000 worth of cocaine has narrowly avoided a jail sentence at the city’s sheriff court.

A PRISONER at Porterfield in Inverness has been handed a five-month jail sentence after he trashed two cells while high on drugs.