Mr James Murdoch, the owner of American Bulldog – Storm, has lodged an appeal against his conviction for his doing being dangerously out of control, aggravated under s3(1) of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. The trial judge heard that on the 14th February 2023, Storm escaped from the owner’s [...]

Jake Summers was convicted for the death of his friend Dylan Irvine following car crash. He pled not guilty to death by driving without due care but was found guilty of the offence at trial.  Summers was driving a red Ford Fiesta along the A90 at excess speed before [...]

Mr Allan Whitelaw assaulted his neighbour Alan Roy as he made his way home from Lidl in July 2022.  Roy, who had recently suffered a stroke, was left with severe injuries including three facial fractures and a broken back. Following the attack, Roy was rushed to hospital for an [...]

Melanie Grierson, aged 54, was jailed for just over one year and banned from driving for 3 years after striking three children and their mother on a pedestrian crossing when it was a green man.   Following her sentencing, Grierson sought to appeal on the basis that a non-custodial sentence [...]

A man who was convicted after head-butting a police officer lodged an appeal against his conviction.  This incident occurred when the complainer, a police officer, attended the appellant’s home.  The police were in attendance following a phone call from a neighbour. Upon arriving at the appellant’s property, the police [...]

Mr Scott Faulkner, was imprisoned for 12 years after being found guilty of 6 separate charges. He sought to raise an appeal with regards charge 1.  The appeal was heard by Lord Carloway, Lord Matthews, and Lord Boyd of Duncansby. The conduct complained began in 2012 when the appellant [...]

Aaron Lind, aged 20, appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court for an offence under s52A(1) of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 -the possession of indecent images of children.  At the trial, the trial sheriff decided that images recovered from a New Zealand Cloud Storage Site could be used as [...]

Ian Stalker has been jailed for 6 years and four months after killing a Scottish Mum behind the wheel of his car. On the 14th December 2020, Stallker was driving a Subaru Impreza when he struck Connie McCoy. She was was out walking in East Renfrewshire with her back [...]

Mr Kenneth Quinn, aged 49, has been convicted of 10 charges at the High Court in Glasgow. This includes two counts of rape, assaulting to severe injury and permanent disfigurement as well as engaging in abusive behaviour towards the first victim and charges of assault to injury towards the [...]

Mr David Zywicki, aged 28, has been sentenced to 9 years in prison for causing death by dangerous driving.  Mr David Zywicki was driving recklessly at excess speeds and collided with a private hire taxi. In this taxi was the driver and Margaret Pearson, 75. She was on the [...]