Crime & Courts Archive

  • Murder accused 'carried severed thumb'
    Friday 1 March 2013

    A man accused of murdering a financial adviser showed a company director a severed thumb in a plastic bag, a court has heard.

  • Father accused of killing son by shaking
    Friday 1 March 2013

    A father has appeared in court accused of killing his son by violently shaking him 15 years ago.

  • Council officer to stand trial
    Friday 1 March 2013

    A COUNCIL housing officer is to stand trial next week accused of sexually pestering women on his rounds.

  • Ex-police officer is guilty of rape
    Thursday 28 February 2013

    A FORMER police officer burst into tears after he was convicted of raping an ex-colleague and another woman.

  • Teenager reported rape after a year
    Thursday 28 February 2013

    A 14-year-old girl left so traumatised by being raped more than a year ago has only now been able to report the attack to police.

  • Lynda Spence 'had 20 phones'
    Thursday 28 February 2013

    MISSING financial adviser Lynda Spence had 20 mobile phones in the space of just 18 months, a murder trial heard.

  • Police appeal after rape
    Thursday 28 February 2013

    A woman was raped as she walked her dog in the early hours of Saturday morning.

  • Da Vinci Code rapist back in jail
    Thursday 28 February 2013

    THE man dubbed the Da Vinci Code rapist, whose early release from prison sparked local protest, has been ordered to serve another year.

  • Surgeon disputes £300,000 claim
    Thursday 28 February 2013

    A surgeon's plea to hold face-to-face talks with the widower of a woman he killed in a car crash has been rejected by a sheriff.

  • £40,000 fine after whisky firm fire
    Thursday 28 February 2013

    A MAJOR whisky manufacturer has been fined £40,000 for health and safety breaches after two workers had to flee a warehouse fire in Glasgow.

  • Corrie's Kevin Webster faces child sex charges
    Wednesday 27 February 2013

    Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell has made his first appearance in court accused of child sex offences.

  • Post Office clerk jailed for stealing £33,000
    Wednesday 27 February 2013

    A POST OFFICE worker who stole more than £33,000 from an 89-year-old pensioner's savings account has been jailed for 20 months.

  • Arrest made after manhunt
    Wednesday 27 February 2013

    A PRISONER who failed to return to jail after being granted home leave has been arrested near his family home.

  • Manhunt after rape of woman
    Wednesday 27 February 2013

    A man is being hunted by police after a 42-year-old woman was raped.

  • Prison inmate dies in hospital
    Wednesday 27 February 2013

    An inmate at Scotland's newest prison has died in hospital.

  • Men stab boy in mobile phone theft
    Wednesday 27 February 2013

    Two men stabbed a teenager in the chest and stole his mobile phone.

  • 10 years for killing boyfriend
    Tuesday 26 February 2013

    A sobbing killer was jailed for 10 years yesterday for stabbing her boyfriend to death in front of his younger sister and brother.

  • Lynda murder trial told of uncollected clothes
    Tuesday 26 February 2013

    MISSING financial adviser Lynda Spence never collected laundry she handed in three days before she disappeared, a court has heard.

  • Vet's killer jailed for minimum 37 years
    Tuesday 26 February 2013

    A serial sex offender with "perverted desires" has been jailed for life for the rape and murder of Irish vet Catherine Gowing.

  • Woman jailed for fatal attack
    Tuesday 26 February 2013

    A WOMAN who killed her partner amid claims he subjected her to regular domestic abuse has been jailed for almost four years.

  • Teenage Celtic star on knife charge
    Monday 25 February 2013

    A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police said: "At 7.40pm on Saturday, February 24, a 16-year-old male was arrested in Cambuslang and detained in custody to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday for alleged possession of a knife."

  • Death crash driver jailed
    Saturday 23 February 2013

    A Porsche driver was jailed for 18 months after causing the death of his best friend when he crashed the sports car on a country road.

  • Six accused deny terrorism charges
    Saturday 23 February 2013

    Six men pleaded not guilty when they appeared in court yesterday in connection with terrorism charges.

  • Man stabbed to death over 'gay' comment
    Saturday 23 February 2013

    TWO men have been jailed for at least 20 years for the murder of a man following claims he had called one of their sons gay.

  • BBC executives denied hearing of Savile sex crimes
    Saturday 23 February 2013

    Top BBC executives denied ever having heard about Jimmy Savile's sex crimes despite Newsnight host Jeremy Paxman's claim they were "common gossip".

  • Spence 'pocketed money for presents'
    Saturday 23 February 2013

    MISSING financial adviser Lynda Spence pocketed money intended for Christmas gifts for the children of one of her alleged killers, a court heard yesterday.

  • Beheading murderer guilty
    Saturday 23 February 2013

    THE family of a grandmother beheaded by a drug addict drifter has paid tribute to a woman "with so much love in her heart" as her killer was found guilty of her murder.

  • Sex assault on teenage girl in wood
    Friday 22 February 2013

    A 16-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted by a man in a small wooded area, police said.

  • Man sentenced over McCanns claims
    Friday 22 February 2013

    A retired solicitor who published claims that Madeleine McCann's parents caused her death has received a suspended jail sentence.

  • Car park assaults on online sellers
    Thursday 21 February 2013

    Three people were assaulted and robbed in separate incidents after posting items for sale online and meeting the "buyer" in a car park.