The number of criminal convictions in Scotland has fallen to the lowest level on record, according to government figures. Fewer than 100,000 people were convicted in Scottish courts last year, the statistics showed. The number of people facing court proceedings also dropped by 5%. However, a record 1,156 people were [...]

A 35-year-old man shot outside a primary school in Glasgow had been cleared of a gangland murder in 2012. Ross Monaghan had dropped his children off at St George's Primary, Penilee, shortly before the shooting happened in Muirdykes Road at about 09:05. Police Scotland said he was in a stable [...]

Two men who boasted they had "got away with murder" after a dispute with a neighbour have been jailed for life with a minimum of 14 years each. Harry Hood, 46, and Ross Russell, 35, attacked Arthur Green at his home in South Ayrshire in November 2014. The High Court [...]

A woman remains in a critical condition after a deliberate house fire in East Dunbartonshire which killed her 23-year-old boyfriend. Rebecca Williams had been celebrating new year with Cameron Logan before they returned to his family home in Milngavie in the early hours of Sunday. Police said a fire was [...]

A 37-year-old man has appeared in court accused of murdering a man and woman in a Dundee tenement block. Krzysztof Gadecki is alleged to have killed Ronnie Kidd, 40, and Holly Alexander, 37, in Mr Kidd's flat in the city's west end. He is accused of repeatedly striking them both [...]

The garden of a woman reported missing in Inverclyde six weeks ago is to be excavated after it emerged she was last seen in public 17 years ago. Police Scotland said that apart from her carers, the last independent sighting of Margaret Fleming was on 17 December 1999 at a [...]

Officials from the Scottish Football Association will meet Police Scotland later to discuss allegations of child sex abuse within the sport. Football has been shaken by claims from former players, from across the UK, that they were abused by those in positions of authority. Deputy First Minister John Swinney has [...]

An eight-year-old girl has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after police were called to a house in Edinburgh. A 48-year-old woman from the same address in Danube Street was also taken to hospital but her injuries were not said to be life-threatening. It was reported that the girl [...]

A former youth football coach and top-flight assistant referee has been accused of a catalogue of child sex offences in Scotland. Pete Haynes, 50, claims Hugh Stevenson sexually abused him over a three to four-year period from 1979. The Scottish Football Association accredited match official coached hundreds of boys with [...]

GUN crime in Glasgow has plummeted in the last ten years to just a couple of dozen incidents in a year. Firearm offences in the city has fallen from 254 in 2006/07 to just 26 last year 2015/16, a drop of 90% There has been a similar huge drop across [...]