Margaret Ferrier, the MP for Hamilton and Rutherglen, has plead guilty to culpably and recklessly travelling from Scotland to London after being told to self-isolate with Covid in September 2020. Ferrier previously tendered a plea of not guilty to the charge. However, she changed her plea to guilty before the [...]

Michael Dorey plead guilty to murder at the High Court in Glasgow. He admitted to stabbing his ex-partner’s mother more than 30 times at her home in Glasgow. Dorey claims that he has no memory of carrying out the act.  The body of Jacqueline Grant was found by one of [...]

Ian Ramsay from Kelson was found guilty of sexual abuse and violence towards partners and ex-partners. He was also convicted of stalking women with whom he had been in a relationship with.  Ramsay was convicted of 16 charges against 9 complainers from 2014 until 2020. Two victims were raped whilst [...]

Jordan Owens was found guilty of murdering Jamie Lee. The trial judge imposed a life sentence with a punishment part of 23 years. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of Joseph Lee and for this he was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment, this sentence was to be served [...]

A former senior Scottish lawyer was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh of five charges involving the sexual abuse of four children. The charges took place over a 14-year period and involved three young girls and a boy.  Watt was extradited from the United States to stand trial. He [...]

Stephanie Bowie stabbed 21-year-old Darren Russell twice in the chest. The incident took place on New Year’s Day 2021 in Erskine, Renfrewshire. Bowie argued that the stabbing was accidental and that she has ‘accidentally’ wounded the deceased and had used the knife to frighten him.  However, at trial she was [...]

Gary Curran pled guilty to laundering £28,000 from building work on a pensioner. He received three cheques which he attempted to withdraw. This money was from roofing work made payable to Curran which had allegedly been carried out for a pensioner by Irish travellers.  Curran told police that he was [...]

William Wright was found guilty of sexually abusing his school pupils for almost 20 years. He was sentenced to a four-year custodial sentence. He has now requested to serve his sentence at his own home. This was rejected by the parole board as it was determined that he still poses [...]

Dr Manesh Gill was found guilty and imprisoned for four years for the rape of a woman he met on tinder.  The court heard that the married doctor had set up a profile on tinder under the name of ‘Mike’. A woman he had been communicating with agreed to meet [...]

A former advocate has been convicted of historical sexual abuse of four children.  John Watt was extradited to Scotland from the US due to allegations of abuse against three girls and a boy over a 14-year period. The offences took places during the 1970s and 1980s  He denied the offences. [...]