Calendar An icon of a desk calendar. Cancel An icon of a circle with a diagonal line across. Caret An icon of a block arrow pointing to the right. Email An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of the Facebook "f" mark. Google An icon of the Google "G" mark. Linked In An icon of the Linked In "in" mark. Logout An icon representing logout. Profile An icon that resembles human head and shoulders. Telephone An icon of a traditional telephone receiver. Tick An icon of a tick mark. Is Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes. Is Not Public An icon of a human eye and eyelashes with a diagonal line through it. Pause Icon A two-lined pause icon for stopping interactions. Quote Mark A opening quote mark. Quote Mark A closing quote mark. Arrow An icon of an arrow. Folder An icon of a paper folder. Breaking An icon of an exclamation mark on a circular background. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Caret An icon of a caret arrow. Clock An icon of a clock face. Close An icon of the an X shape. Close Icon An icon used to represent where to interact to collapse or dismiss a component Comment An icon of a speech bubble. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Comments An icon of a speech bubble, denoting user comments. Ellipsis An icon of 3 horizontal dots. Envelope An icon of a paper envelope. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Camera An icon of a digital camera. Home An icon of a house. Instagram An icon of the Instagram logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. Magnifying Glass An icon of a magnifying glass. Search Icon A magnifying glass icon that is used to represent the function of searching. Menu An icon of 3 horizontal lines. Hamburger Menu Icon An icon used to represent a collapsed menu. Next An icon of an arrow pointing to the right. Notice An explanation mark centred inside a circle. Previous An icon of an arrow pointing to the left. Rating An icon of a star. Tag An icon of a tag. Twitter An icon of the Twitter logo. Video Camera An icon of a video camera shape. Speech Bubble Icon A icon displaying a speech bubble WhatsApp An icon of the WhatsApp logo. Information An icon of an information logo. Plus A mathematical 'plus' symbol. Duration An icon indicating Time. Success Tick An icon of a green tick. Success Tick Timeout An icon of a greyed out success tick. Loading Spinner An icon of a loading spinner. Facebook Messenger An icon of the facebook messenger app logo. Facebook An icon of a facebook f logo. Facebook Messenger An icon of the Twitter app logo. LinkedIn An icon of the LinkedIn logo. WhatsApp Messenger An icon of the Whatsapp messenger app logo. Email An icon of an mail envelope. Copy link A decentered black square over a white square.

Thug’s boast to police after vicious double attack

Inverness Justice Centre.
Inverness Justice Centre.

A thug brutally attacked two men leaving them covered in blood then boasted to police: “I made a good job of them, didn’t I?”

Charles Maclennan – who has a horrendous history of violent assaults – battered the pair at a property in Culloden.

One of his victims was asleep on the sofa when the attack began and the other was chased through the house.

Inverness Sheriff Court was told Maclennan, 37, had received a threatening phone call the night before the assaults on May 17.

Defence lawyer Gordon Nicol said Maclennan, whose address was given as Inverness Prison, arrived at the property in Galloway Drive to find the man accused of making the threats sleeping on the couch.

“The red mist descended and he lost the plot,” Mr Nicol told Sheriff Ian Cruickshank. “He accepts he shouldn’t have done it.”

Unleashed a flurry of punches

The court was told Maclennan punched one man several times as he lay asleep before turning his attention to the other.

Maclennan unleashed a flurry of punches to the man’s face in the living room and followed him into the kitchen, where more were inflicted.

He then attacked the blood-soaked man a third time when he fled back into the living room.

When Maclennan was arrested by police a short time later, he boasted: “I made a good job of them, didn’t I?”

He then told the officers he knew their faces, he would find them when they were off duty and assault them, fiscal depute Robert Weir told the court.

Sheriff Cruickshank said Maclennan had a “horrendous record of previous convictions, including numerous for assault” and sentenced him to 18 months in jail.

But he backdated the sentence to May 18 when Maclennan, who admitted two assaults to injury and one charge of threatening behaviour, was remanded.