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CCTV filmed a 26-year-old man throwing a tyre wrench towards a car which was parked in a driveway in Strathpeffer.
A murder accused had ‘a focused plan’ to target specific individuals who he believed were the cause of his difficulties, a court heard today.
MacDonald has pleaded not guilty to the charges and lodged a special defence to the murder charge.
He made no plea, was committed for further examination and remanded in custody.
The court heard the 57-year-old had a similar conviction before.
A neighbour dispute boiled over when two Ross-shire sisters tried to ‘put matters right’ by approaching the couple next door.
A neighbour dispute boiled over when two Ross-shire sisters tried to ‘put matters right’ by approaching the couple next door.
MacDonald has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has lodged a special defence.
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Accused says: "I didn't know what I was going to do but I felt total darkness.”
Skye murder trial witness: ‘He said he was going to sort out John Don and when he did he was going to go out in a blaze of glory.’
Finlay MacDonald said he was humiliated after John MacKinnon assaulted him in 2013 and his father had to intervene to stop him getting battered.
A Glasgow man has appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court and made no plea to five charges alleged to have taken place in Ross-shire.
A retired osteopath disarmed a former patient of a gun after the man shot his wife and him at their family home, a murder trial heard.
The prosecutor said: ‘I mean no criticism of anyone involved but let me ask you this: did you consider an attempt to stop the Subaru at any point?’
The mother-of-six said she caught her husband in her arms as he was collapsing: ‘I was just screaming in horror.’
His wife said she assumed ‘it was just talk’ adding her husband was ‘quite a ranty person’.
The court heard how the incident unfolded after police pulled over a car near Conon Bridge.
Finlay MacDonald is also accused of attempting to murder two people in the Ross-shire village of Dornie.
He admitted being over three times the drink-drive limit in Dingwall and then didn’t cooperate for background reports.
