An Inverness woman with a long record of alcohol-related offences will be sentenced at the city’s Sheriff Court todayI.
Fiona Hardie, 46, appeared from custody and admitted a variety of offences which occurred while she was drunk on different dates between July and November this year.
Sentence had been earlier deferred for a background report and she was remanded because she did not have a permanent address.
Her lawyer, John MacColl, said that Ms Hardie was receiving considerable support from various agencies while she was at liberty and hoped to have a permanent address within 24 hours.
Sheriff Sutherland released her on bail so she could attend a meeting with the local authority and ordered her to return this morning.
But he warned her to stay away from alcohol and not to re-offend “or you know what will happen”.
Hardie admitted behaving in an abusive and racially aggravated manner towards Polish cyclists in Upper Kessock Street on July 1.
She then pleaded guilty to a breach of the peace at the Ness Bank Church on October 27 by shouting and swearing and then resisting arrest when police were called to deal with her.
Hardie also admitted breaking bail conditions by being outwith her temporary accommodation during curfew hours and failing to observe a court order to abstain from alcohol on November 2.