Kieran Taylor, 30, stormed outside the Montrose pub in a rage and punched a passing car windscreen, a court was told.
Our reporters have been sitting in courtrooms across the north and north-east this week and covered a wide variety of cases.
Tariq Russell, 20, was recruited by his barber to assist a criminal gang carry out a callous telephone scam on the elderly and vulnerable.
John Millar, 40, was arrested by police at Aberdeen Airport after bombarding the woman with violent and racist abuse while on holiday in Asia.
Mark Rigby, 50, throttled his partner and called her abusive and demeaning names in public - even on the day of her father's funeral.
Scott Emslie's traumatised victim hit out at the sheriff's decision to admonish him, saying it makes "a mockery of a broken system”.
