HMA V Stephen Bell 2018 Mr Bell was given an extended sentence for having an “uncontrollable obsession” with child pornography but he has successfully appealed against the sentence imposed. The appellant was convicted of possessing thousands of still and moving images. At the Sheriff court it was heard that Mr [...]

Gorgan V HMA 2018 Mr Gordan was jailed for culpable homicide over a ‘mercy killing’ of his terminally wife. However he was admonished following appeal. Mr Gordan was released after the appeal court ruled there was no public interest in putting him in prison after the crime. His wife was [...]

HMA V John Farrell 2018 Mr Farrell was admonished after pleading guilty to being connected in the supply of class B drugs, namely cocaine. The appellant was admonished as a result of his good behaviour but was subject to a confiscation order. He was charged along with his father in [...]

HMA v VE 2018 VE, a 14-year-old boy, who raped and sexual assaulted two younger girls has had his sentence of six years reduced on appeal. Judges ruled that this term was "excessive" and instead imposed a sentence of three years and nine months after ruling that the trial judge [...]

HMA v WILLIAM BEGGS 2018 "Limbs in the loch’ killer William Beggs was convicted of murder and given life imprisonment in 2001 for murdering a man and dismembering his body and throwing it in different lochs. The convicted murderer sought legal aid for a UK Supreme Court appeal against a [...]

HMA v FD 2018 A man accused of assaulting a nurse had his plea of not guilty accepted by the Crown in July 2017 on the basis that he was incapable by reason of mental disorder to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct. However he recently has had an appeal [...]

HDJS 2018 A man found guilty of sexually assaulting his own daughter and making and sharing indecent images of her has had an appeal against his conviction refused. The appeal was based on the fact that the sheriff refused the jury to view a number of the images during their [...]

HMA V STEPHEN INGRAM 2018 Mr Ingram was found guilty in 2017 of various domestic offences and appealed his convictions as his former partner and the complainer in the case denied that she had been assaulted by him. The appellant claimed that the sheriff erred in not upholding a defence [...]

HMA V RYAN LAWSON 2018 Mr Lawson who was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail after being found guilty of committing domestic abuse against two ex-partners has had an appeal against his conviction and sentence rejected. He was found guilty after Trial in Dundee of 3 charges of assault, two [...]

HMA V NEIL COOPER 2018 A first instance Sheriff who did not take in to account the effect of a notification requirement of a man who was fined after being found guilty of sexual assault has his sentence reduced by the appeal Court. Mr Cooper has successfully challenged his five-year [...]