A chef has been fined after admitting to police he was carrying a kitchen knife after being detained following a street disturbance.
Ross Munro, 132 Ardness Place, Inverness, admitted committing a breach of the peace and being in possession of a knife in a public place in an appearance at the city’s sheriff court yesterday.
The 27-year-old pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at an address in Druid Road, Inverness on October 1 last year.
He admitted shouting and swearing at several people, including a former partner.
Fiscal depute Ross Carvel said that the woman had been at home when the “accused’s head appeared through the window”.
The woman’s parents had arrived soon after and saw Munro in the garden and an argument broke out, with “derogatory” language being used by both sides before Munro left.
However, he “re-attended” around two and a half hours later.
Police had previously been called after the earlier incident and two constables saw Munro near the house and detained him.
While being interviewed Munro admitted carrying a kitchen knife among his chef’s whites in his bag.
Munro’s solicitor Neil Wilson said his client has since accepted that his relationship with the victim is now over and knows his behaviour was “unnaceptable”.
He said on the second occasion he was found near the property he had been attempting to go back to apologise for his earlier actions.
And Mr Wilson said his client was “peaceable” by the time the police arrived and freely “volunteered that he had the tools of his trade” with him in his bag.
Sheriff Peter Grant-Hutchison fined Munro £320 for the breach of the peace and a further £160 for the possession of the knife.
