An man who attacked his father with a knife because he suspected him of killing his mum has had his sentence deferred again.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told yesterday that Christopher Thomson, 22, grew up with the “spectre of the disappearance of his mother”.
At an earlier hearing, the court was told that Thomson’s hairdresser mother Heather was 27 when she was last seen leaving her home in the Highland capital on January 19, 1994.
She has not been seen since and police are still treating her disappearance as a missing person inquiry.
But Thomson believed his natural father, Gerard Salvadori, had something to do with what happened to his mum.
Although he had only seen Mr Salvadori three times in his life and never knew his mother because he was just an infant when she vanished, Thomson visited his Conon Bridge home after making the journey from Inverness by bus.
Thomson, of 1 Castle Heather Avenue, Inverness, has admitted assaulting his father to his injury by repeatedly punching him on the face, detaining him against his will and striking him on the head with the handle of a knife.
Yesterday, Sheriff Margaret Neilson was unhappy with a background report prepared on him and delayed sentence until November 19 so she can be “fully appraised” of his situation.
