Our reporters have been sitting in courtrooms across the north and north-east this week and covered a wide variety of cases. Highland American football coach had teen boys pose naked for fake sex education video The former head coach of an Inverness American football club had teenage boys pose for naked photos and videos under the guise of making a sex education programme. Robert ‘Robbie’ Paulin, who coached the Highland Wildcats team, assured his two victims that the footage would be used in a “matter of fact” educational film for schools and paid them to take part.

After a jury at Inverness Sheriff Court returned guilty verdicts, Sheriff Eilidh MacDonald branded the 39-year-old “very dangerous” and said he displayed “a level of grooming and manipulation that I have rarely seen”. Cocaine driver who was nearly NINE times the limit avoids prison thanks to his mum A cocaine driver who was nearly nine times the limit has avoided going to prison due to the impact it would have on his elderly mother. Adrian Bremner, 47, appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court where he admitted having a metabolite of the Class A drug in his system when police stopped his car in October last year.

When police tested Bremner they found him to be almost nine times the legal limit. Rosehearty man torpedoes own defence case by admitting assault A Rosehearty man who once drove a digger through a shop during an ATM robbery demolished his own defence in a similar style when he took t.