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A 23-year-old Grantown-on-Spey man who used a metal pole and a rock in an attack was ordered to pay his victim £450 in compensation.
Darren Stewart, of Beachen Court, was also told to carry out 225 hours of unpaid work as an alternative to prison.
Sheriff Sara Matheson told Stewart when he appeared for sentence at Inverness Sheriff Court on Thursday: “The fact this offence was pre-planned and the nature of the attack, the threshold of prison has been passed.”
But the Sheriff decided against it because of the “positive” background report on Stewart. But she warned him that if he did not comply, he would likely be jailed.
A CGI of the self-build cottage in Highworth Highworth: A plan that could have seen five Grand Design-style dream homes being built on a green field on the approach to Highworth has been turned down. Developer Adrian Sykes, who is from Bridlington in Yorkshire, wanted to use the field behind a short strip of houses on Swindon Road about a mile south of Highworth for the detached self-build houses. His application to planners at Swindon Borough Council called it a “self-build development of exceptional quality”. But planners were not in favour. They turned down the application because of they didn’t like the construction of a small estate behind the ribbon development along Swindon Road, what they called uncharacteristic backland nature of the development and the subsequent detrimental impact that it will have upon the appearance of the area .
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A man who was unlawfully detained for more than six years was forced to sleep in a car and go hungry as he fought a legal case that resulted in him being awarded $641,000.
Douglas Ngumi’s current lifestyle is a far cry from that of a man who has just won thousands of dollars for unlawful detention, the largest damages ever ordered in a Supreme Court case of its kind.
The Kenyan national said he lives in a Mitsubishi L300 borrowed from a friend, often goes hungry, some days having nothing to eat, and bathes outside.
His most prized possession, he said, is a cell phone given to him by his lawyers – though he repeatedly loses such devices because he said he can’t properly secure them.