Copfs

A 28-year-old man who kept and trained dogs for fighting has been sentenced to 210 days' imprisonment, banned from keeping animals for 15 years and fined £1,800 for firearms offences. Rhys Davies, a former gamekeeper at Millden Estate near Glenesk, was sentenced at Forfar Sheriff Court after p

The Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain QC will today visit a leading science research centre where the secrets of cold cases are unlocked and new techniques to prosecute crimes of the future are being developed. Ms Bain will meet with scientists at the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the

Social work students have been learning how to support crime victims and witnesses in an innovative pilot project at the heart of Scotland’s courts.

A forfeiture order has been made against a man for more than £52,700 due to his links with those involved in serious crime, including human trafficking, crimes of dishonesty and crimes of violence. The forfeiture order against William McPhee Junior was granted under the account forfeiture prov

A father and son have been sentenced to 300 hours of unpaid work for animal welfare offences, illegal puppy farming and a consumer protection offence involving multiple identities to sell puppies on Gumtree. At Elgin Sheriff Court yesterday, Samuel Ronald Hessin and his son Samuel Arthur Hessin were

Two men have been given community payback orders (CPO) for illegal metal detecting, damaging a historic monument and removing an artefact. Metal detectorists Andrejs Grisulis, 35 and Matthew Madden, 55 had previously pled guilty to heritage offences at Dunoon Sheriff Court.

Holyrood Secondary School have been hailed as winners of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) national schools public speaking competition held at Parliament House. Mairin Campbell-Thow and Rose Usher, both 13 and in S2 at the Glasgow school, teamed up to triumph in a keenly contes

An Edinburgh GP has been jailed for four years for the rape of a woman he met through an online dating site. Dr Manesh Gill, 39, was sentenced to four years imprisonment after being found guilty of sexually assaulting his victim when they met for the first time.

The number of criminal charges reported with a sexual orientation aggravation increased by 10 per cent in 2021-22 to 1,781 – continuing the upward trend of the last decade.

A 30-year-old man has been jailed for large-scale fly tipping of car tyres on streets, car parks and empty land around Glasgow. Declan Clarke, from Drumchapel, was sentenced to 11 months' imprisonment at Glasgow Sheriff Court yesterday.

A Shetland-based company has been fined £80,000 after an employee sustained fatal injuries after being struck by a forklift truck. QA Fish Ltd, a fish processing company based at Blacksness Pier, Scalloway, pled guilty to health and safety breaches committed between 6 January 2014 and 31 Janua

A GP who sexually assaulted female patients for more than 34 years has been jailed for 12 years. Krishna Singh, from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, was found guilty of 54 sexual offences on women under his care between 1984 and 2018.

A 56-year-old fishing boat skipper has been fined £3,211 after being found guilty of illegal fishing in a marine protected area off Scotland’s northwest coast. Alex Murray, of the Isle of Lewis, was in charge of the FV Star of Annan while it was operating with its fishing gear deployed w

A member of an organised crime gang who helped arrange the murder of a Dutch journalist has been jailed for life. Christopher Hughes, 33, was with Martin Kok, 49, when he was shot and killed outside the Boccaccio Club in Laren, Holland on 8 December 2016. He had alerted others to Mr Kok’s loca

The Crown Office has begun an investigation into claims that perjury was committed during the trial of Alex Salmond. Mr Salmond's lawyers have written to prosecutors over concerns that evidence that was given in court ran contrary to statements that were later given to MSPs on an inquiry.