Courts

A Watten couple won a civil case against a Caithness roofing company that took a large deposit and failed to do the agreed work on their house.

A Castletown couple returned to their home to find it had been trashed, a sheriff was told.

A Thurso woman had a visit from her ex partner, who behaved in a threatening or abusive manner towards her on New Year’s Day, Wick court heard.

A new date has been fixed for the trial of a man who made his name selling racing tips.

A man travelling on the Inverness-Wick bus service was subjected to an unprovoked attack by a drunken fellow passenger – just out of prison.

A man whose dog attacked a deer while being used to hunt hares at a Caithness cemetery has become the first to be convicted under new hunting laws.

A young Bower man has admitted having sent a 13-year-old girl a series of sexual messages online.

A Wick man is facing charges of dangerous driving, failing to stop and attempting to defeat the ends of justice.

Thomas Swan picked up a “fare” in Thurso and drove him seven miles to Halkirk.

A Thurso man who admitted an assault in the town on county show night has been fined £200.

A Nairn man has admitted drink-driving and being in possession of a knuckle duster.

A Thurso man is alleged to have viciously attacked and robbed a woman in a park while partially masked.

A 33-year-old Caithness man appeared from custody via a Wick Sheriff Court video link to Inverness Sheriff Court on drugs charges.

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.