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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.
He was first caught drug-driving on the A9.
The 59-year-old man was charged with racially aggravated abusive behaviour.
A Highland-based charity is looking to share a pre-Christmas cup of tea and treat to help those in need around the world.
Joyce tried to present himself as a friend of Mr White - but a post mortem revealed he had in fact died as a result of injuries he had inflicted.
He also admitted assaulting one man to his injury by repeatedly punching him on the head.
Three young girls were approached by a 56-year-old Ross-shire man with the offer of sweets and an invitation to go home with him.
The sheriff told the Dingwall man: ‘Your record of domestic abuse is appalling.’
Three people are to stand trial charged with the murder of an Inverness man - including his estranged wife.
