A man with links to serious organised crime who operated a multi-million pound smuggling operation to traffic Class A drugs from South America to Scotland has been jailed for three years and nine months. Tony Bennett, 33, relied on trusted couriers to import raw cocaine and heroin from Ecuador.
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The Sheriff Appeal Court has allowed an appeal against conviction by a man convicted of breach of the peace and made subject to notification requirements after police found images of primary school pupils performing wrestling moves on his phone. Appellant AB argued that the evidence obtained by poli
English courthouses built in the 1990s are being urgently checked for the presence of dangerous aerated concrete after its discovery at a London court building. The UK government is scrambling to respond to a developing crisis over the historic use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in
A hotel investigating the theft of 50 koi carp worth around £100,000 was surprised to identify an unexpected suspect: an otter. The Grosvenor Pulford Hotel, near Chester, installed CCTV cameras after the disappearance of the expensive fish, the BBC reports.
Fraud has reached its highest ever levels in Scotland, with nearly 50 cases a day, according to new figures released by the Scottish Police Authority.
A German court has rejected the extradition of an Albanian man to the UK over concerns about British prison conditions – in the second judgment of its kind this year. In June, an Irish court made the same decision when it declined to extradite an individual to Scotland, citing concerns that he
Scotland can position itself as a leading Ethical Digital Nation by adopting new recommendations regarding private sector access to data held by the public sector, according a new report. An expert group chaired by Angela Daly, professor of law and technology at the University of Dundee, was commiss
At the High Court in Livingston, Lord Mulholland sentenced Connor Gibson to life in prison, with a minimum period of 22 years in custody, for the sexual assault and murder of his sister Amber Niven. Stephen Corrigan received a prison sentence of nine years for sexual assault and attempting to defeat
Police Scotland are to stop investigating certain crimes in a new 'pilot scheme' in the North East due to a lack of resources. Where crimes are reported where there is "no associated threat, risk, harm or vulnerability and also no proportionate lines of enquiry for local police officers to investiga
The head of a real estate agency which claimed to have sold a flat to a dog has been arrested in Iran. The arrest came after the agency published a video showing a couple signing over their home to a small white dog named Chester, The Jerusalem Post reports.
The son of a couple who sold part of their farmland to the Highland Council as part of a road development has been unsuccessful in an action seeking declarator that he had an unrestricted servitude of access over adjacent land also acquired by the Council during the construction process. Alasdair Ma
A recording of John Kerry’s address at the Signet Library on 24 August 2023 is now available. The recording is divided into chapters:
The Court of Session has refused a complainer’s leave to appeal a decision of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) that his complaint was not eligible for investigation. Commenting on the decision, Gillian Martin, case investigations manager, said: “We’re pleased with th
The UK Supreme Court has received and determined applications for permission to cross-appeal in the following cases, often referred to as the Rwanda appeals: No further applications for permission to appeal are expected to be received.
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