A WOMAN found dead in her back garden in an upmarket area of Edinburgh has been named locally. The body of Marilyn McLellan, 60, was discovered in a communal garden behind her terraced flat in Warrender Park Road, Marchmont. Police have launched a probe into her death, which is being treated as unexplained. A [...]
A DEMENTIA patient in her nineties was grabbed by the neck and force-fed by staff at a scandal-hit nursing home, a hearing was told. Mary Reid Easton faces 22 charges of misconduct relating to her time as deputy manager of Hilton Gardens, Larkhall, North Lanarkshire. The senior nurse is accused of stopping the dementia patient [...]
AN 80-year-old man has been jailed for sexually abusing children over a period of 25 years. William McIndewar was convicted at the High Court in Dumbarton of lewd and libidinous practices, sexual assault and attempted rape against two young girls between 1967 and 1992. The abuse began before the girls had started primary school. Today [...]
Two men who admitted responsibility for the death of a man in Leith have been jailed. At the High Court in Glasgow today, Paul Banks, 48, and Simon Brown, 41, were both sentenced to eight years in prison after John Carter died in February 2011. Local residents in Salamander Court discovered the body of the [...]
The family of Edinburgh Firefighter Ewan Williamson, who tragically died in a blaze at the Balmoral Bar in the city’s Dalry Road on 12th July 2009, are raising an action for damages in the Court of Session. Mr Williamson’s mother and sisters, Linda Williamson, Rachel Williamson and Rebecca Williamson, have launched the action against Ewan’s [...]
PUBS have banded together to tackle anti-social behaviour, with louts facing bans from several city centre premises Pubwatch, an Aberdeen-based scheme based at Butcher’s Arms on George Street, brings together four pubs in the city. This latest scheme follows similar successful initiatives across the rest of the city. Constable Keith Mulloy from the Kittybrewster local policing team [...]
A GANG of girls aged as young as 12 took turns to kick an Asian youngster in the head as she lay helpless, police revealed today. Alisha Khan, from Edinburgh, told how she suffered a daylight attack so severe she was left with double vision and nearly stumbled in to a busy road. The gang [...]
SOME of Scotland’s wealthiest streets have suffered a sudden upsurge in break-ins, it emerged today. Police say the upmarket Grange, Marchmont and Newington areas of Edinburgh have seen a 16% rise in break-ins, despite numbers falling across the rest of the city. Homes in the affluent Grange area, home to Fred Goodwin, can sell for [...]
TWO men have been jailed for a total of ten years after admitting being involved in organised crime, including drugs and extortion. John McCarthy, 38, and Peter Cameron, 31, made the lives of other people in West Lothian a ‘misery’, police said. They were given six years and four years respectively at the High Court [...]
A 17-year-old boy was assaulted on St Patrick’s night and is in a serious condition in hospital. Police are appealing for information and witnesses in Fife after the boy was assaulted in Kelso Place, Kirkcaldy, in the early hours of Sunday morning. The boy was taken by ambulance to the Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy and later [...]
4th May 2010 – Suzanne Pilley fails to arrive at work after the Bank Holiday weekend. 11th May 2010 – Public appeal for information in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh featuring large-scale screen and ad trailer. 12th May 2010 – Last sighting of Suzanne on CCTV is confirmed as being at 8.51am, 4th May, coming [...]
DAVID Gilroy has been found guilty of murdering Edinburgh bookeeper Suzanne Pilley, after a 17-day trial. After two days of jury deliberations, Gilroy, from Silverknowes in Edinburgh, convicted of killing Ms Pilley in 2010. The conviction has been hailed as a landmark case by police, as 38-year-old Ms Pilley’s body was never found, and prosecutors said Gilroy [...]
POLICE are renewing investigations into the notorious World’s End murders of 1977, under new double jeopardy laws. Prosecutors at the Crown Office have asked Lothian and Borders Police to investigate the deaths of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie, after ‘compelling’ new evidence of guilt has emerged. No one was ever convicted for the crime, which [...]
A GROUP of fishermen and a fish processing factory have been fined £960,000 for illegal overfishing. Alexander Buchan Ltd and 17 skippers were sentenced at Glasgow High Court today. The 17 vessel skippers falsely declared the quantity of fish they landed at Shetland Catch Ltd in Lerwick as a means of evading the annual fishing [...]
COURT bosses are to text trial witnesses to remind them to come to court. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS), says many trials are dragged out by people failing to turn up. They hope the scheme, which is being trialled at Edinburgh Sheriff Court over the next four months, will make the [...]
By Alessandro Brunelli A SCOTS waste management company has pled guilty to the illegal burning of tonnes of waste material. On Decemer 9th 2010 Caledonian Waste, based in Loanhead, Midlothian, had burnt wood, straw and other material without authorization and was found in breach of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The Waste Management Licence [...]
A WOMAN was sexually assaulted as she walked home from a night out in the early hours of Saturday morning, police say. Lothian and Borders police are appealing for information after the woman was attacked in Edinburgh’s McDonald Road. The attack happened at 3.25am. She was walking down the road when a man, thought to [...]
POLICE are hunting a man after a Chritsmas Eve shopper was subjected to an attempted mugging in a supermarket car park. The male shopper was only able to escape after another customer approached and forced the attacker to leave empty handed. Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward following the robbery in the car [...]
AN HIV-positive couple who downed three bottles of vodka before carrying out a sex act in a public swimming pool have been jailed. Lukasz Rutkowski, 23, was spotted fondling Tanya Kalonga’s breasts and simulating a sex act while children and adults were swimming nearby. But when staff and police officers tried to throw the drunken [...]
BY Claire McKim A SIX week old baby was showered with shards of glass after a thug smashed in a bus window using a metal dog chain. The unprovoked attack by Kevin Addison, 26, meant paramedics had to use sticky tape to remove tiny pieces of glass from the newborn child’s face. Addison, from [...]