Connor Thomas aged 27-years old has allegedly repeatedly stabbed Joseph McGready in a flat near Glasgow City Centre.  Joseph later died in hospital after police found him injured in the flat just after midnight. Connor Thomas was accused of murder along with another a female named Amanda Welsh. Both [...]

Mr Hendry died on the 28th February 2020 while transferring from a work boat to a floating structure known as the Sea Cap at the Company’s fish farm.  The FAI follows the prosecution and the conviction of Fife based Mowi Scotland Limited in 2003 for breaches of health and [...]

Christopher McGowan denies killing Claire Inglis at her flat in November 2021. Procurator Chris Fyfee KC said in his closing speech that “Ms Inglis death was no mystery” meaning that it was a brutal attack and there is only one personal responsible for this. A special defence of self [...]

Sean Hogg aged 22-years old  pled guilty for attacking a girl twice at Dalkeith Country Park in 2018 when he was 17 years-old.  The accused avoided prison after judge Lord Lake consulted Scotland’s new sentencing guidelines for people aged less than 25 years old.  Lawyers who represented Mr Hogg [...]

Operations director Kate Graham expressed that the company was facing prolific shoplifting and a rise in armed robberies.  It was noted that UK stores have seen a 35% increase in crime and more than 900 staff members have been physically assaulted.  Kate Graham explained that the problem had gone [...]

Two men have been arrested over £850,000 worth of drugs which were recovered in raids in two different locations. Officers have found a large-scale of cannabis at a home in Livingston that was estimated to be around £600,000 after finding £250,000 worth in an industrial estate in Glasgow.  Officers [...]

Representatives from the Judiciary, SCTS, COPFS, SPS Police Scotland, SLAB and the Scottish Government met last week and acknowledged that there is no single solution to the challenges of Custody Courts and the processing of warrant cases. It was expressed that an immediate step is to be introduced in [...]

Tony Salvatore appeared at the High Court in Glasgow after pleading guilty to a charge of culpable homicide due to diminished responsibility. The accused carried out the attack on his grandparents Denis and Mary Fell on Boxing Day in 2021.  The accused has been ordered to be detained without [...]

The UK Government have announced that they will not block plans for a drug consumption room pilot in Scotland. Alistair Jack stated that Westminster will not intervene and there were no plans to devolve drugs laws to Holyrood.  It was argued by campaigners that drug consumption rooms where people [...]

It was reported by the chief inspector for Scottish prisons that the number of people in custody is going to soar in the next year.  Wendy Sinclair-Gieben emphasised that although the numbers had fallen during the COVID 19 pandemic this did increase when the pandemic was over. She has [...]