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A man who sexually assaulted two young girls after dragging them off the street in a bid to rape them has been jailed for over six years. Regan McClinton followed and attacked both children within less than 30 minutes of each other in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, on 22 April 2023.

A multi-national company has been fined £176,000 for failing to prevent excessive smoke and noise pollution at the Mossmorran petrochemical plant in Fife. ExxonMobil Chemical Ltd pled guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to breaching pollution control regulations at the Cowdenbeath plant on vario

A rapist who drugged two women before sexually abusing them while they were incapacitated has been jailed for nine years. Kenan Baki spiked the drinks of both women after meeting them at a nightclub in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on 2 September 2023. Prosecutors at the High Court in Edinburgh played CCTV which

A gang who sexually exploited vulnerable women after plying them with drugs at brothels in Dundee have been jailed. Mircea Marian Cumpanasoiu, Cristian Urlateanu, Remus Stan, Catalin Dobre and Alexandra Bugonea were found guilty on 9 January 2025 following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

A care home company has been fined over £1.8 million after a resident choked on a piece of food while consuming her evening meal alone in her room. The 96-year-old resident of Cradlehall Care Home in Inverness was on a specialist diet of soft, moist and bite-sized food and her care plan stated

A man who murdered his girlfriend at a remote Shetland home has been jailed for life, and ordered to serve a minimum of 25 years. Canadian national Aren Pearson brutally attacked his partner – 24-year-old Claire Leveque – stabbing her multiple times, choking her and submerging her in wat

Two men who turned a flat into a secret £500,000 cannabis farm have been jailed for more than three years each. Ban Nguyen, 53, and Long Le, 33, both from Vietnam, cultivated cannabis inside nearly every room in the flat in Dundee.

A man who attempted to murder his estranged wife after subjecting her to an extensive campaign of domestic abuse has been jailed for eight years. Alan Johnston, of Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, was found guilty of three charges on 11 September 2025 at the High Court in Dundee. Prosecutors were able t

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry (FAI) into the death of 38-year-old Stewart Glancy. Mr Glancy was a prisoner within HMP Addiewell who died on 20 June 2020. 

The Crown Office is to re-examine the death of a student who took his own life after a grading error at the University of Glasgow. Ethan Brown, 24, died in December 2024 on the day he was due to graduate.

The Crown Office has lodged a first notice to begin the court process for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of 25-year-old Aidan King, who died on 17 December 2020 within HMP Low Moss.  A preliminary hearing will be held on 13 November 2025 at Glasgow Sheriff Court. 

A Kirkcaldy man has been sentenced for sexually assaulting a woman who had given him shelter in her home.  Unemployed Adrian Kolczak, 35, had been thrown out by his girlfriend in the early hours of the morning and was shivering in his car when she noticed him. 

The Crown Office has published new guidance for businesses that discover economic crime such as fraud, money-laundering and bribery within their organisations.  The guidance has been issued following the recent creation of new criminal offences which extend the scope of corporate criminal liabi

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has announced the appointment of Dame Alison Saunders as the chair of its strategic board. Dame Alison brings extensive experience in criminal justice leadership to the role. She served as director of public prosecutions for England and Wales from 2013

An uninsured driver who was over the legal alcohol limit has been ordered to be detained for 32 months in a Young Offenders institution after causing a high-speed crash which resulted in an aspiring footballer having to undergo a double leg amputation.  Arran Paterson, 19, was driving an Audi A