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Edinburgh boarding school 'protected abusers for six decades'
Child sex abuse
Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry chairwoman Lady Smith has published her findings on the provision of residential care at Merchiston Castle School.
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Violent Scots whisky firm director abused wife for two years after marriage broke down
Courts
Christopher Leggat, 44, verbally and violently abused Cara Leggat, 42, between September 2022 and November 2024.
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Woman who fractured baby's arm while in her care at Glasgow flat dodges jail
Babies
Demi Laurie took five hours to take the baby girl to a hospital after realising she was injured.
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Kidnapped teen bound and beaten by savage gang before being dumped on road
Courts
They repeatedly hit the 17-year-old over the head and shoulders with a sword with such force that the weapon broke.
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Balaclava-clad gang tackled by brave restaurant staff after daylight robbery bid
Police Scotland
Footage captured by a diner at Le Petit Beefbar on George Street in Edinburgh shows a group of three attempting to steal the bike on Thursday.
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'Cannibal throuple' horrifying explanation after killing women and selling bodies as street food
Justice
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Jorge Beltrão Negromonte da Silveira, his wife Isabel Cristina Pires da Silveira, and his lover Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva killed women and sold their flesh as street food
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Man appears in court in connection with abduction and assault after woman and baby injured
Courts
Police, including firearms officers and a K9 unit, were called to St Leonard's Street in the capital at around 9am on Saturday.
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Scots woman 'tortured' by thought relatives knew more about mum's murder
Justice
Gina McGavin thinks others may have known more than they let on about the murder of her mother Mary McLaughlin.
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Almost 500 Police Scotland officers and staff currently on long-term sick leave
Police Scotland
The figures released under Freedom of Information come at a time of increasing violence towards officers.
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Women and girls rushed to hospital after 17 'stung' by syringe at festival
Police
17 females were "victims of syringe injections" at the music festival.
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Drug dealer 'sent horrendous texts to ex before torturing her partner to death'
Courts
John Belfield, 31, threatened former girlfriend Demi-Lee Driver and called her a "money grabbing little dog" in messages heard by the court.
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Pervert teaching assistant cries 'no' as he's arrested over sick videos of schoolgirls
Child sex abuse
Keiron Pickett, 24, had six videos stored on his iPhone, along with a collection of indecent images and disturbing notes about his students.
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Common holiday mistake could be 'open invite' to lose thousands
Holidays
People are being warned to avoid doing this if they're leaving home for a while
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Man 'cooked girlfriend in pressure cooker and then fed her to stray dogs'
Justice
Manoj Sane, 58, is accused of using an electric saw to cut up Saraswati Vaidya, 32, into so many pieces in a bid to stop police tracing the crime. His frantic efforts continued for three days before he was taken into custody.
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'A Team' vow revenge in gang war and tell their rivals 'bullets win'
Organised crime
"TMJ are bottom of the food chain and are all working for a keyboard gangster... Bullets win."
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Top Scots law officer asked to explain how trans killer had record 'wiped' after name change
Justice
Alba MSP Ash Regan has demanded that Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain explains the blunder over Alex Stewart, who was known as Alan Baker when he killed a man.
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Peter Tobin documentary on how cops caught evil Scots serial killer soars up BBC download charts
Sunday Mail
The Hunt For Peter Tobin examines how three missing persons cases led to the capture of one of Scotland’s most evil murderers.
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Husband's horrifying death as wife 'sliced off flesh and fed it to family dog'
Justice
Svetlana Batukova was sentenced to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of killing her husband Horst Hans Henkels whose corpse was partially eaten by the family dog
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Man convicted of 1994 Orkney restaurant murder is innocent, claims top lawyer
Justice
Leading criminal lawyer Aamer Anwar believes the case of a former soldier convicted of the murder 31 years ago of a restaurant waiter is a miscarriage of justice
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Daniel clan and Mark Richardson's mob flee Scotland after double-murder in Spain
Organised crime
An underworld source has told the Record that around a dozen senior gangsters from Edinburgh and Glasgow have jetted out of the country.
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Murdered man found stripped naked at home and bound by the ankles, court hears
Courts
The brutal attack on Mr Campbell was the result of a "very careful planning by a team of highly organised criminals", the prosecution said.
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Scots cops insist 'no evidence' Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr shooting set up in Scotland
Organised crime
Malaga-based Spanish police chief Pedro Agudo Novo today described the suspected killer arrested in Liverpool as a member of the Daniel gang.
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Eddie Lyons Jr and Ross Monaghan murder cops 'had clear early suspect in Spain'
Organised crime
A clear image of the gunman who shot the pair dead was captured on CCTV as he fled the scene.
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Cannabis-smoking nursery worker pinched and kicked 21 children in vile attacks
Courts
Roksana Lecka, 22, carried out the sickening assaults at a £1,900-a-month nursery.
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Mum raped by best friend's husband as children slept upstairs
Sex crime
Sarah Glen, 39, was raped by evil David Devine, 44, at his home in Busby, East Renfrewshire, in December 2022.
Teen girl charged after reportedly seen with bladed weapon on Scots street
Police Scotland
Police Scotland were called to the incident in Dundee on Saturday.
Son who collapsed in seizure on street offered 'remote consultation' instead of ambulance
NHS Scotland
Martin Logan accused the Scottish Ambulance Service call handler of 'just reading off a menu' after his son Gregor hit his head when having a tonic-clonic seizure.
Scotland to be battered by '590-mile wall of rain' as Hurricane Erin draws in
Weather
Scots are being told to say goodbye to their summer clothes as the last week of August is set be a washout.
CourtsToddler dies after being pushed non-stop on swing for 44 hours by his own mumWARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Romechia Simms was 24-years-old when her schizophrenia pushed her to a deadly extreme
'I was 14 when I was forced to marry my 19-year-old cousin and live in a polyamorous cult'
Justice
Elissa Wall was just 14 when she was forced to marry her 19-year-old cousin in a ceremony conducted by the notorious Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Beat the Street returns for six weeks to Rutherglen and Cambuslang
Lanarkshire
The aim of the free game is to score points and win prizes for walking, running, cycling and scooting as far as possible.
Five police detectives arrested in 'worst scandal' since Wayne Couzens case
Justice
The alleged plot to suppress a complaint of sexual assault by a policewoman against a senior officer is said to be the 'worst scandal' since the Wayne Couzens case
Key member of notorious hacking gang 'led by young Scots cyber criminal' jailed for 10 years
Justice
US prosecutors claim Noah Urban was working with Tyler Buchanan, from Dundee, and others when he stole cryptocurrency in one of the most sophisticated hacking scams the country has seen.
Celtic FCMarcelo Saracchi to sign for Celtic as exact transfer details revealed amid unexpected Boca callThe 27-year-old Uruguayan is bound for Glasgow after an agreement was reached for his services
Toddler dies after being pushed non-stop on swing for 44 hours by his own mum
Courts
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Romechia Simms was 24-years-old when her schizophrenia pushed her to a deadly extreme
'I was 14 when I was forced to marry my 19-year-old cousin and live in a polyamorous cult'
Justice
Elissa Wall was just 14 when she was forced to marry her 19-year-old cousin in a ceremony conducted by the notorious Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Beat the Street returns for six weeks to Rutherglen and Cambuslang
Lanarkshire
The aim of the free game is to score points and win prizes for walking, running, cycling and scooting as far as possible.
Unseen Aaron Hickey summit before Scotland recall revealed after Brentford injury hell
Aaron Hickey
The full-back has been sidelined for almost two years but has returned to the international set-up