Weekend court roll – A high-rise killer and a missing stalker
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Our reporters have been sitting in courtrooms across the north and north-east this week and covered a wide variety of cases.
Crime and courts
Fraudster who was part of telephone scam on Aberdeenshire pensioner ordered to repay £10,000
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Tariq Russell, 20, was recruited by his barber to assist a criminal gang carry out a callous telephone scam on the elderly and vulnerable.
Family of late Buckie science teacher lose legal fight over alleged asbestos exposure
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Relatives of Sarah Kerr sued Moray Council alleging that she contracted cancer as a result being around the dangerous substances in the classroom.
HMP Grampian inmate orchestrated fire attacks on families’ to stop witnesses from talking
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Sex offender Josh Neil enlisted two Aberdeen thugs to terrorise potential witnesses in his upcoming court case.
Man took advantage of drunk young woman and raped her in Aberdeen flat
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Diego Valdivieso, 30, posed as a good Samaritan and offered the young woman his bed before taking advantage of her while she was asleep.
Inverness domestic abuser locked up and branded ‘danger to women’
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It is the second time in the space of weeks that William MacFarlane has been jailed, after he was sentenced for kicking the same woman's head "like a football".
Fort Augustus MS sufferer locked up for Christmas after sending threats to estranged wife
Jonathon Clay repeatedly sent the woman offensive and menacing messages in spite of court orders banning him from doing so.
Inverness hotel handbag thief unmasked after CCTV posted on Facebook
Juan Collar, from Spain, appeared in the dock at Inverness Sheriff Court and admitted three different thefts.
Victims’ anger as foster carer who sexually and physically abused children given rare sentence
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William Morrice sexually, physically and mentally abused the children aged four to 15 from the 1970s to 2003 - but now has dementia and is housebound.
Aberdeen painter blames bad Thai cocaine on murder threats to ex-partner
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John Millar, 40, was arrested by police at Aberdeen Airport after bombarding the woman with violent and racist abuse while on holiday in Asia.
Former Huntly squaddie subjected partner to five years of violence and abuse
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Mark Rigby, 50, throttled his partner and called her abusive and demeaning names in public - even on the day of her father's funeral.
Aberdeen stalker who absconded from prison to go drinking won’t be punished
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Scott Emslie's traumatised victim hit out at the sheriff's decision to admonish him, saying it makes "a mockery of a broken system”.
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Skye murder accused had ‘enough ammunition to start a small war’, court told
‘Heil Hitler’: Injured Inverness racist left police covered in blood
Careless young drink-driver caused crash on Highland road
Pensioner caught dealing prescription drugs from her Aberdeen home
Skye murder accused’s mental disorders would not account for his behaviour, court told
Aberdeenshire ice cream van targeted by drug addict in frightening firebomb attack
Diego the dog spared death sentence after biting delivery man
Man admits sex assault on sleeping woman he met in Inverness bar
Sheriff tells Nairn dad who sexually assaulted women and called them Barbie ‘this was just wrong’
Teenager set fire to curtains during cigarette break at Portsoy care home
Speeding driver behind bars after killing two holidaymakers in A85 crash
Peterhead man facing lengthy jail term after admitting rape and sexual abuse of children
Valentine’s Day unprovoked assault lands Fraserburgh man court
Aberdeen couple caught ignoring lifetime ban on keeping animals
Inverurie woman who embezzled £72,000 from Royal food supplier avoids prison
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Aberdeen woman sold PAVA spray to friend after police officer accidentally left it behind
Firm fined over faulty lorry involved in serious head-on A9 crash
‘This was just cruelty’: Sheriff blasts carer who filmed herself threatening vulnerable OAP
Skye murder accused ‘saw himself as the victim’ court hears
Inverurie man accused of accused of telling child he would be bombed during abuse campaign
Drunken skipper vandalised fishing vessel in Lochinver Harbour
Paedophile social care worker from Aberdeen struck off
£200k cocaine bust after police stop car on A9
