Crime & Courts Archive

A STEROID abuser who stalked a woman and bombarded her with nuisance phone calls has been jailed for 30 months and banned from approaching her for 20 years.

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange will find out next week if he is to be extradited to Sweden to face sex crime allegations.

A TEENAGER'S weight plunged to just five stone after she drank bleach over fears she was going to be left in Pakistan by her family, her sister told a murder trial.

JUDGES and jurors in Scotland will be able to hear evidence of an accused's previous convictions and "bad character" under proposals by a panel that advises the Scottish Government on new legislation.

A TEENAGER told police she saw her mother and father murder her sister by forcing a bag into her mouth and suffocating her, a court has heard.

A high-LEVEL drug dealer who was caught trafficking in cocaine with a street value of more than £1 million was yesterday stripped of £383,222 crime profits.

RELATIVES of the Lockerbie victims have vowed to pursue a public inquiry, even if it means forcing the hand of the UK Government through the courts.

MURDER accused Nat Fraser chose to keep silent yesterday in the trial in which he is accused of murdering his estranged wife.

THE position of the new National Transitional Council (NTC) in Libya has been consistent only in its inconsistencies in relation to the Lockerbie bombing.

A TEAM of British police officers travelled to Paris to oversee payment of the ransom for a British five-year-old held hostage in Pakistan, a court heard.

POLICE praised both Hearts and Hibs fans for their behaviour during the Scottish Cup Final.

A teenager is being questioned by police in connection with a bomb squad investigation that led to a mass evacuation in Banff.

A MAN has been charged with directing dissident republican terrorism in Northern Ireland.

THE family of a woman killed in a car crash have called for more research into the effects of taking different medication before getting behind the wheel after the woman who caused the fatal accident was banned from driving.