Within the past 12 months police have managed to seize millions of pounds worth of drugs across Fife. Over the last year £8 million worth of drugs have been recovered according to the police including cocaine, heroin and cannabis.  Between May 2022 and 2023 it was found that police [...]

Malcolm Leask aged 35 was found guilty for a string of offences against women at the High Court in Stirling in 2023. He was found guilty for violent offences against children along with animals. Mr Leask was convicted on Wednesday the 26th April 2023 and was sentenced at Edinburgh [...]

The Parole Board have argued that Colin Pitchfork should be released from prison as it was no longer necessary for the prison to protect the public from Colin Pitchfork. Although Pitchfork committed a number of serious offences causing endless harm to his victims the Parole Board noted it was [...]

The appellant committed the first rape in August 2020 after the victim, who was a middle-aged woman, was intoxicated at the time of the incident. The appellant followed the victim and raped her where two witnesses then found the victim lying on the ground along with the appellant who [...]

Ethan Cruz was convicted of forcing two ex-partners into sex work. He forced them into performing webcam shows at his flat. He later forced one of the women into prostitution where she would be having sex with up to 15 men a day, whilst Cruz profited.  Cruz stated in [...]

Mark Newman began committing sex crimes when he was 13 years old. The jury convicted him of five charges, four of which were unanimous verdicts. On hearing the verdict Newman stated that the proceedings were ‘a total farce’ and that the jury had been misled. However, at sentencing his defence [...]

Lyndsey Gardner, aged 26, pled guilty to be concerned in the supply of cocaine between the 28th of July and 27th of September 2021. Police raided her former home and found over £6,000 worth of the Class A drug. A tub full of cocaine was found in the utility room [...]

Sanderson, aged 29, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment with a further five years extended sentence. His abuse of six women took place over a 13 year time period. He was convicted of carrying out multiple rape and sexual assaults between 2008 and 2020. One of his victims was only [...]

The case of Sean Hogg has evoked a significant amount of controversy. Sean Hogg was convicted by a jury of raping a 13 year old girl. The attacks took place in Dalkeith County Park on a number of occasions between March and June 2018. In sentencing Hogg the judge imposed [...]

Dale Montague pled guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to assaulting the woman to her severe injury, permanent disfigurement and impairment as well as to the danger of her life.  The court heard that the woman was victim to a ‘sustained assault’ which took place over several hours from [...]