A year-long supervision order was imposed on a Fort William man who had admitted assaulting his own father in an attack that saw him put his arm round the older man’s throat and compress it.
At an appearance at Fort William Sheriff Court last month, Alexander Michael MacGillivray, aged 21, had pleaded guilty to charges that at his home in Lundavra Road, Fort William, on June 29 this year, he assaulted his 60-yearold father by pushing him; placing him in a headlock, repeatedly punching him on the head and body, placing his arm round his throat and compressing his throat.
MacGillivray further pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause a reasonable person fear and alarm in that he brandished a knife at police off cers and threatened to stab them. Sentence was deferred until last week for compilation of a criminal justice social work report.