Updated: May 8, 2021, 11:47 am
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Police in America have released the phone call made by Kim Avis’s teenage son to report him missing in America.
The call reveals that the Inverness market trader failed to return from swimming on a US beach.
Reuben Avis made the call to the emergency services after his father disappeared from the sands on Monastery Beach in Carmel, California in 2019.
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A woman has recalled an “extreme” relationship with a market trader accused of sexual and physical abuse.
The 48-year-old alleged Kim Avis could go from “affectionate” to “angry” and that “not very much” could get him annoyed.
She also claimed Avis wanted sex with her when she did not want to.
The 57-year-old accused is on trial at the High Court in Glasgow, where he denies 16 charges spanning between between January 1997 and March 2019.
Nine charges were withdrawn by the prosecutor on Friday.
Man tried to rape 12-year-old girl then joked about it
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image captionKim Avis denies all the charges against him in his trial at the High Court in Glasgow
A woman has told a jury at the High Court in Glasgow a man tried to rape her as a child and then joked about it.
The 22-year-old claimed Kim Avis attacked her when she was 12 at a property near Inverness.
Mr Avis denies a total of 25 charges spanning from between January 1997 to March 2019.
The accusations include claims that he raped three women. He is also said to have attempted to rape one of them when she was 12.