Mr Martin, an Ayrshire man, convicted of raping two school girls over 40 years ago has been jailed for 7 years. He will also remain on the sex offenders register for life. The social worker who prepared the Social Work report to be made available to the Court described Mr [...]

Two men and a woman have appeared in court in connection with the murder of Steven Donaldson, who was 27. His body was found in a nature reserve in Angus earlier this year. All three adults aged 23, 19 and 19 have been charged with Mr Donaldson’s murder. No plea [...]

New figures published this week show that there has been a reduction in the number of race related crimes were reported this year compared to last year. The figure for this year sits at 3,249. This comes from the Report ‘Hate Crime in Scotland 2017-18.’ This report also shows figures [...]

A man has been arrested and charged over the alleged murder of a woman found dead by a roadside in Perthshire. He will appear at Perth Sheriff court on Friday the 25th of May 2018. Ms Johnstone was discovered dead in a wooded areas near Auchterarder on 10 May 2018. [...]

Mr Callum Phillips, aged 49, has been convicted of causing the death by dangerous driving. He was the bus driver driving a Rangers Football Bus to a football match in October 2016 when he caused an accident that resulted in Ryan Baird’s death. Mr Phillips has been a bus driver [...]

Mr Shamsul Arefinwas jailed for three years in 2015 at Fort William Sheriff Court after he was found guilty of human trafficking. He had now been ordered to pay £100,000 that he made from his crimes trafficking people from India as a confiscation order was granted this week by the Sheriff. [...]

Jean-Francois Perreault and Imran Zafar Syed were arrested at Glasgow as they were planning to fly a Scottish flight to Canada while under the influence of alcohol after blood tests found they were above the legal limit. However, essential evidence was lost by prison Staff as bloods samples were lost [...]

The Scottish Criminal Review Commission has agreed to conduct a full review in the case of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi for his conviction in relation to the Lockerbie bombing to see if it is worthy of a fresh appeal. Megrahi died in 2012 after being released on compassionate leave [...]

The new paper looks at ways of helping jurors memories and helping them understand evidence and the complexities of the law in a criminal trial. It has concluded that note taking, been given clear instructions and having complex words and terms explained are the most effective way. Only note taking is permitted to [...]

Mr Wright was found guilty of a Paisley murder after he left his victim, Mr McClelland, bleeding to death last July. The victim was walking to his friends house to play computer games when he was stabbed in the heart twice by Mr Wright after he asked him for a [...]