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A salesman who was found guilty of being part of a £3.3 million fraud against Edinburgh University has been jailed for seven years. Aasim Johar, 54, colluded with the university’s former assistant director of estates and buildings Geoff Turnbull to mastermind a bogus procurement scheme t

A man convicted of concealing a haul of unaccounted-for money in a van has been ordered to pay back thousands of pounds under proceeds of crime legislation. In March 2022, Andrew Early, 38, pled guilty along with a co-accused to hiding £30,020 in the vehicle.

A former director of a haulage firm has been imprisoned for 16 months over a fraud involving police escort contracts. James Campbell altered paperwork for services provided to the firm by police in Scotland and Wales and overcharged a Spanish company by £110,000 for the transportation of wind

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has unveiled a plaque to mark the official opening of new office accommodation in Dundee for the city’s Crown Office staff. Around 80 COPFS staff moved into the new office, in Compass House on Riverside Drive, in March after relocating from the previous COPFS prem

Paul McNaughton has been sentenced to life imprisonment at the High Court in Glasgow for the murder of retired Edinburgh schoolteacher Peter Coshan in August 2022. The punishment part of the sentence is 22 years and will be backdated to August 18, 2022. McNaughton, 29, pled guilty to both charges at

A child abuser who targeted young girls during sleepovers at his Falkirk home has been jailed. Anthony Walker raped one child and used lewd, indecent, and libidinous practices towards all five victims between 1998 and 2007.

A man who raped two former partners and abused a third over a three-year period has been jailed. Haydn Edmonds was found guilty of four charges on May 7 following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Pupils from Dalziel High School in Motherwell have been crowned the winners of this year’s Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) schools public speaking competition.

Solicitor General Ruth Charteris KC has apologised for the poor quality of Scotland's fatal accident inquiry (FAI) system. Speaking at Holyrood, Ms Charteris suggested there could be “legitimate reasons” for delays, some of which have taken as long as a decade.

A man who abducted a woman before subjecting her to a prolonged and violent assault lasting more than 21 hours has been jailed. Leslie Jackson left his victim with 54 separate injuries after attacking her at a property in Aberdeen on July 30, 2022.

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged first notices with the sheriff court to begin the court process for a conjoined fatal accident inquiry into the deaths of David Donnelly and Robert Thomson. David Donnelly, aged 83, died at Hairmyres Hospital on 14 January 2019. Rober

Three secondary schools will next month go head-to-head in the final of a public speaking contest. Pupils from Shawlands Academy, Glasgow, Trinity High School, Renfrew, and Dalziel High School in Motherwell will battle it out in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s national schools

A man who tried to murder a young boy and another man by setting a fire outside their door in a high-rise block of flats has been jailed. Craig McQuillian was caught on camera entering the Fidra Court building in Edinburgh at around 11.30pm on November 12, 2023.

A paedophile who raped a young girl and sexually assaulted another during a seven-year campaign of abuse has been jailed for seven years. Malcolm Lamont was found guilty of six charges following a trial at the High Court in Livingston on March 25.

A man from Aberdeen has been jailed for seven years after raping a young woman almost a decade ago. Alisdair Euan Randalls was convicted at the High Court in Aberdeen on April 11.