Sami Uli Jabbar was travelling at around 80mph in a 30mph zone when his car collided with Harley Smith. Aged 16. The court heard that at the time of the incident conditions were dark and foggy.  The school pupil was struck when he attempted to cross Polmont Road at Laurieston. [...]

Krishna Singh, from Airdrie, was found guilty of sexual offences against patients under his care. The offences took place between 1984 and 2018.  Singh claimed that he had been using examination techniques which he had learned whilst training in India. His actions were against would and included four girls under [...]

Jordan Duncan and Stephen Fairservice attacked the 17 year old and left him with a broken jaw. The incident took place on the 4th of May 2018.  Both are first time offenders and pled guilty to assaulting the boy to his severe injury, disfigurement and the danger of his life [...]

Graham Curran was found guilty of trafficking 2.4 million pounds worth of cocaine. The offence was aggravated by a link to serious organised crime. Curran was sentenced to carry out 225 hours of unpaid work. However, the Crown challenged the sentence, and the appeal court quashed it and imposed a [...]

The judgment reveals how the appeal court ruled that Ms McGarry had suffered a miscarriage of justice after initially pleading guilty to the charges. McGarry pled guilty in 2019 and was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for embezzlement. However, she then successfully appealed against a sheriff’s decision not to allow [...]

Two men were convicted of attempting to communicate with children for sexual gratification. This was based on evidence from paedophile hunter groups. The men argued that the evidence that came from the groups had been unfairly obtained and that their pleas in bar of trial based on oppression should have [...]

It was submitted on behalf of the accused that the evidence led in respect of two charges of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices were not mutually corroborative. At trial the judge accepted the no case to answer submission.  The complainers were a brother and sister who had been neighbours of [...]