Courts

A former Celtic youth coach has been convicted of sexually assaulting boys who he had befriended while running a soccer academy in Easter Ross.

His defence agent said first offender Bound had 'suffered a kind of brain fog and was ashamed and embarrassed about what he had done.

A tirade of abuse was directed at police when they were called to a Dornoch housing estate to deal with a possible disturbance.

A boy was abused by his football coach for years after joining a local soccer team, a jury has been told.

Prosecutors said a man would still be alive today if appropriate safety procedures had been in place at the time of his death.

An experienced fish farm worker drowned after he was crushed between a boat and a barge as he tried to disembark a moving transfer vessel.

Lord Uist warned that Justice Secretary Angela Constance’s proposals constituted a 'serious attack upon the independence of the judiciary'

A man living in Ullapool sexually assaulted a woman in a Sutherland house after raping his first victim in Glasgow months earlier.

The man was assaulted after he confronted his attacker outside his home.

Daniel Kay convinced her he would carry out work on two crofts but ultimately did very little.

His offences were committed against six women between 2008 and 2020 in the Moray, Easter Ross and the Inverness areas.

A gamekeeper on a Highland estate shot a sparrowhawk and stuffed it in a bag while being filmed by an RSPB Scotland investigator.

A gangland boss who hid drugs valued at thousands of pounds in secret woodland “stash sites” has been jailed for five years and eight months.

Burgess (29) had been on a night out in the Highland capital.

Former fightfighter Gary Campbell was jailed on Friday for the 'art and part' rape and sexual abuse of girls as young as four in the Philippines.

A paedophile who directed and recorded appalling sex attacks on young girls over the internet from his home Lochinver has been jailed for 12 years.

Patrick McGuire had been visiting Scotland with his wife Anne when tragedy struck.

A ferryman who downloaded thousands of indecent images of children has been released from custody subject to strict conditions.

A paedophile who directed sex attacks and rapes of young girls in the Philippines from his home in the Highlands was told to expect a jail sentence.

A Sutherland man was fined £240 at Wick Sheriff Court on Wednesday after he admitted having driven without insurance and while unsupervised.