A 48-year-old man was given unpaid work after abusing boys and girls at properties in Ross-shire and Moray.
The 52-year-old, who subjected Highland women to domestic abuse over a five-year period, was jailed for a total of 32 months.
The man avoided jail after missing a trial’s fourth day.
A man who was “never skilled enough to do the work” scammed two women out of thousands of pounds for incomplete roof repairs.
The attack was during a course of violent conduct which took place between May 1975 and August 2022.
A man defrauded two women of thousands after carrying out an estimated £100 worth of shoddy, sub-standard work.
“I don't believe for a minute that it was just happenstance for you to come together and then suddenly hatch this plan,” says sheriff.
A Sheriff has taken pity on a motor mechanic after hearing his tales of woe following his arrest last May.
Today would have been his mother’s 52nd birthday.
Another man in the group is also punished but court hears “he has distanced himself from a negative peer group”.
The 32-year-old was found by police in a field after crashing through bushes.
A 19-year-old took a knife to a supermarket in Nairn.
‘He is remorseful and ashamed,’ hears Inverness Sheriff Court.
Court hears 80-year-old broke down in tears when he heard the consequences of the crash from police.
Obscene material was found after police seized two devices belonging to 57-year-old man.
Staff at a Nairn supermarket were alarmed when a knife dropped out of a customer's clothing as he bent down to pick up a plastic bag.
He ended up down an embankment and suffered a broken back but managed to drag himself back onto the road to try and check on people in other car.
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“You are clearly not a fit person to be freed,” sheriff told the teenager.