A man who carried out an unprovoked attack on a stranger in Edinburgh has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Terence Reilly was arrested after assaulting a 63-year-old man on Loaning Road on August 6, 2023. Following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, he was found guilty [...]

Appeal judges reduced crime boss Jamie “Iceman” Stevenson’s prison sentence by nearly four years, ruling that his original 20-year sentence was excessive. Stevenson, 59, was convicted of smuggling £76 million worth of high-purity cocaine into the UK and running a street valium factory capable of producing 250,000 tablets per hour. [...]

EK, who pleaded guilty at age 15, was initially sentenced to an extended term of six years and four months, with three years and four months in custody. It was accepted that this extended sentence was not legally valid, but the Crown also argued it was too lenient. The case [...]

Nickolas Chenier, 56, was convicted under Scotland’s Hunting With Dogs Act 2023 after using his golden Lurcher for hare coursing near a cemetery in Wick in March 2024. The dog chased and severely injured a deer, which Chenier ultimately killed with a knife. Witnesses intervened to protect the deer but [...]

William Budge, 62, was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for attempting to murder his estranged wife by driving over her twice in Edinburgh in April 2024. Budge attacked Sandra Budge, 63, after she left him, citing "embarrassment" as his motive. The court heard that he had [...]

Ian Sweeney, a tracker and "bug-sweeper" for organised crime, pled guilty in October 2024 to a section 28 offence under the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010. This followed a 2023 conviction for a separate offence. Using the EncroChat platform, Sweeney sourced and supplied drugs, conducted sensitive information checks, [...]

The respondent was charged with sexual assault under section 3 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 for touching the bottom of YZ at the Argyle Bar in Edinburgh on 24 December 2022. After trial, the sheriff convicted the respondent of common law assault, removing the sexual aspect of the [...]

The appellant was convicted by the Edinburgh High Court of a sexual offence under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, and appealed his conviction, arguing that no reasonable jury would have found him guilty. He contended that the jury's questions to the judge, suggesting a potential acquittal, showed they had [...]

William MacLeod, a 19-year-old, was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for a series of crimes, including armed robbery and dangerous driving. On May 9, he stole a car in a violent carjacking before robbing an Inverness petrol station with a fake gun, taking £130. After [...]

NRL, a 15-year-old, was sentenced to four years and four months for the culpable homicide of Keith Rollinson, after pleading guilty under Section 76. This was reduced from an original six-year sentence. The incident occurred on 2 February 2024 when Rollinson, a 58-year-old bus driver, was involved in a confrontation [...]