A 56-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a man at a house in Glasgow. James Brennan is accused of killing 46-year-old John Cameron at a house in Stonebank Grove in Castlemilk on Friday. He is also charged with assaulting Marissa Murphy at the same house, last week. [...]

Republic of Ireland international Anthony Stokes has been ordered to pay an Elvis impersonator 230,000 euros for headbutting him in a nightclub. The Blackburn Rovers striker pleaded guilty to attacking Anthony Bradley in Buck Whaleys nightclub in Dublin on 8 June 2013. He had already agreed to give his victim [...]

More than 1,500 people in Scotland visited a self-help website last year designed to stop them viewing sexual images of children. Sexual abuse prevention campaign Stop It Now also said 78 men from Scotland had called their helpline in 2016. The service offers "anonymous, effective support" to those worried about [...]

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how the 16-year-old called officers and told them she was carrying a blade. A 16-year-old girl who was detained for a series of knife offences told Glasgow Sheriff Court she making a ‘cry for help’. The court heard yesterday how the girl, who cannot be named [...]

A woman has admitted embezzled more than £370,000 from her employer, which caused colleagues to be made redundant. Kerryanne Clarke, 38, pled guilty to transferring the money from Elmwood Construction Services Ltd into her own accounts between 2010 and 2014. As a result, a number of employees were made redundant [...]

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 [...]