Keith Cameron, 61, conned his terminally ill friend out of almost £500,000. He used this money to pay for his home which has been valued at over £1 million and to send his children to private school. Cameron who was jailed in 2015 was served with a proceeds of crime [...]

Lars Pederson, 38, raped Alison McAllister, 56, after coming across her at The Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill. McAllister was sitting alone and was in a distressed state as she grieved the death of her partner.  Pederson attacked her and left her on the canal path to go to [...]

The appellant, WM, was convicted of two charges of assault. One of the charges involved his 6-year-old son. He was convicted of repeatedly striking him over the head and pulling him by the hair over a period of five months. The second charge involved assaulting another child over the first [...]

A schoolteacher who entered in a relationship with a 15-year-old female student has had her headline sentence reduced by six months.  In December 2016 the appellant was approached by the complainer who had become upset in a class. The appellant offered to respond to emails sent to her school email [...]

Gordon Campbell was convicted at trial of assault to severe injury and permanent disfigurement. He appealed his conviction on the basis that at trial the sheriff had misdirected the jury.  The misdirection was in relation to the response to an accusation made by the complainer on the night in question [...]

The respondent was acquitted of a section 1 of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009. At trial judge accepted a no case to answer submission on the third day of the trial.  Evidence was heard from the complainer, a barman at Shotz Pool and Snooker Club where the complainer and [...]

The appellant was charged with having a knife in a public place without a reasonable excuse or lawful authority. The conviction was appealed on the basis that the sheriff had erred in determining that the statutory defence of reasonable excuse was not provided. The appellant had a history of mental [...]

Lukasz Czapla has received a life sentence after being found unanimously guilty of murdering his two-year-old son Julias in Muirhouse, Edinburgh. Czapla told the High Court that he had shot his son in the head with an air gun before stabbing him with a skewer like instrument and smothering him [...]

Gang member, Christopher Hughes, has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 25 years for his involvement in the murder of Martin Kok.  Hughes was with the now deceased when he was shot outside the Boccaccio Club in Holland on the 8th of December 2016. Evidence was led [...]

Counsel for the appellant argued that the trial judge had erred in directing the jury on a number of key points during the trial. This included details on how certain evidence could and could not be used to corroborate one another. The appellants and the complainer had spent time in [...]