INVERNESS SHERIFF COURT ROUND-UP: Inverness businessman attackers jailed, man charged for attempted murder and teenager’s armed robbery rampage
Inverness Sheriff Court has heard a broad range of cases this week including:
Two men who carjacked a well known Inverness businessman in "a disgusting and brutal attack" were sentenced to 54 months each in custody.
Calum Ross and Matthew Bell appeared before Sheriff Sara Matheson by video link for the assault on chocolatier Lucas Story at the city's Sheriff Court and she told both: "These offences are of the utmost seriousness.
A 47-year-old man appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court charged with attempted murder following the alleged stabbing of a 51-year-old man in a flat in the city's Tomnahurich Street on Thursday, February 13.
Mark Macdonald from Inverness is accused of striking the victim on the neck with a knife or sharp instrument to his severe injury and that he did attempt to murder him.
· Inverness Sheriff Court: Man (47) charged with attempted murder after Tomnahurich Street assault
A 24-year-old Inverness man who starved his dog and denied it veterinary treatment for three months has been ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work and banned from keeping animals for five years.
Morgan Walker, of Castle Heather Drive, previously appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court and admitted causing the animal unnecessary suffering by act or omission by failing to provide it with adequate nutrition or veterinary treatment between March 20 and June 20 last year, leaving it with chronic malnourishment.
· Inverness man who starved dog gets ban on keeping animals
A teenager went on an armed robbery rampage in Inverness last summer wielding a baseball bat, a hammer and a screwdriver to threaten four of his victims.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that Daniel Krogulek, whose address was given as Inverness Prison, was 19 when he committed three of his offences, with another three carried out days after his 20th birthday on August 2 last year.
· Inverness youth’s crime spree saw him wield a baseball bat, hammer and screwdriver
A man was attacked and knocked unconscious in an Inverness street after briefly talking to his assailant who punched him repeatedly on the face before he fell and banged his head on the pavement.
Benjamin Drummond of Wyvis Place, Inverness appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court and admitted assaulting his victim to severe injury and danger of life outside the Lochalsh Stores on the night of October 28, 2023.
· Inverness thug left man propped up against wall after assault
