The sixteen year old who murdered a six year old girl in the Isle of Bute, who has now been named as Aaron Campbell, has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of her murder at a Trial at Glasgow High Court last month. The punishment part of the sentence has to last 27 years before he can be considered for Parole. However, Lord Matthews stated that Mr [...]

Three males entered an Edinburgh home on Wednesday and attacked a man inside and injured another man as he attempted to intervene. The three suspects all arrived in the same Audi and were covered head to toe all in black with their faces covered. All parties are understood to be [...]

Mr Cunningham, a former police officer, who was found guilty of sexually abusing three women has been jailed for 14 years.  A trial took place at the High Court in Glasgow where Mr Cunningham was found guilty. Lord Armstrong described Cunningham as "controlling and coercive". Mr Cunnigham was found guilty of the [...]

The number of Trials held in the High Court being adjourned due to lack of court time has decreased. The Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service states that now only 0.9 percent of High Court Trials have been adjourned for this reason this year,  compared to 2.2 percent in 2015. The number [...]

Ms Tigwell has received an apology from the Crown Office after her ex partner did not stand trial after allegedly sending explicit pictures of her. This was due to an error by the Crown. Ms Tigwell’s ex partner pled not guilty to the charges but the case did not stand [...]

A 54-year-old man is in a critical condition after a hit-and-run crash involving a stolen car in East Dunbartonshire. Two men who crashed into the man’s car in a Mazda MX-5 ran off after the incident and have not been located by the Police. An elderly woman, also in the [...]

Mr Toner, who was a former teacher at a boarding school in Largs, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for grooming and abusing children at the school. He has also been placed on the sex offenders register and has to be monitored for two years after his release. The [...]

The Scottish sentencing council have voiced that there will be a considerable impact if sentencing guidelines are being introduced that have not properly been tested in Scotland. This comment was made as there is a motion for a debate regarding this matter in Parliament this week. The chair of the [...]

A former urology consultant admitted sending graphic pictures and messages to an undercover police officer he believed was a 14 year old child and also admitted to attempting to meet the child to engage in unlawful sexual behaviour. Mr Crooks, after entering his guilty pleas, was given a community payback order [...]

Deputy Chief Constable Mr Kerr has voiced how he is very surprised by the increasing levels of sectarianism in Scottish football after he joined Police Scotland six months ago, after working in Northern Ireland as an officer for 30 years. Mr Kerr has also voiced the offensive behaviour at football [...]