A priest convicted of sexually assaulting a sleeping train passenger has lost his appeal against his prison sentence. Father Daniel Doherty, 61, was jailed for 16 months for attacking a younger man on a train between Newcastle and Edinburgh in April 2024. His defence argued that his personal circumstances and [...]

David Robertson, 28, from Cumbernauld, was jailed for 14 years for a campaign of violence and control against women, including two charges of attempted murder and two counts of rape. His crimes occurred between 2019 and 2023 in North Lanarkshire and the Scottish Borders. Robertson abused one woman by shouting, [...]

In Pa Samba Saye v HM Advocate, the appellant was charged with raping the complainer, RM, while she was under the influence of alcohol. He lodged two special defences: consent and incrimination, naming two other individuals, SKOD and AS, as potential perpetrators. The court admitted evidence under section 275 of [...]

Anthony Redpath, 42, was sentenced to four years in prison for acting as a lookout in a planned attack on former gang member James Sheridan. Sheridan, who had been jailed for possessing drugs and £104,000 in cash, wanted to leave the gang while in prison, but the crime boss blamed [...]

Ramneek Sandhu, 23, avoided jail after pleading guilty to causing serious injury by careless driving following a crash in Glasgow’s Cowcaddens on June 30, 2022. Sandhu, a new driver, became distracted by noise from his passengers and turned around, failing to notice a stationary bus at a red light. His [...]

Andrew Kelly and Donna Brand were convicted in December 2023 of the murder of Caroline Glachan, alongside Robert O’Brien, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 22-year punishment part. Kelly appealed his conviction, while Brand appealed both her conviction and her 17-year sentence, arguing it was excessive given her [...]

The appellant was convicted in the sheriff court for two charges of sexual assault under the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009, stemming from actions performed during his male stripper act at a hen party. He was sentenced to a 12-month community payback order with supervision. The charges involved the appellant [...]

A 57-year-old man has been charged following a double-decker bus crash into a railway bridge in Glasgow city centre on December 14, 2023. The incident left eight people injured, one of them seriously, after the bus became wedged under the bridge on Cook Street. The roof of the bus was [...]

LM, a football coach, was convicted of sexual offences involving a young player, LW, and a member of a paedophile hunter group posing as a child. The trial judge considered LW’s apparent consent as a mitigating factor, but the Crown argued that this underestimated the gravity of the offences. LM [...]

Alan Edward, a 55-year-old man from Falkirk, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for terrorism and firearms offenses following a Police Scotland Counter Terrorism Unit investigation. He was found guilty of promoting a banned far-right Neo-Nazi group online and inciting racial and antisemitic hatred, as well as Holocaust denial. [...]