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Bringing you the latest crime news from all across Scotland and beyond every day.

Bringing you the latest crime news from all across Scotland and beyond every day.

A FORMER Shetland teacher has been found guilty of acting in a lewd, indecent and libidinous manner towards primary pupils more than a decade ago, following a two day trial at Peterhead Sheriff Court. Forty-one-year-old Steven Tait, with an address in St Annes, had denied six...

AN ORDER prohibiting new jury trials in Scottish island courts has now been lifted. An order imposed in July prohibited new jury trial business in the Scottish islands, including at Lerwick Sheriff Court, due to staffing challenges experienced by prisoner escort agency GEOAmey....

A top Aberdeen sheriff was unaware of delays affecting Warren Fenty's police custody death inquiry until he learned of reports by The P&J.

A sheriff has been removed from an inquiry into an Aberdeen man's death in police custody after extreme delays in publishing her findings.

The inquiry into the death of Warren Fenty is the longest-running FAI in Scotland.

Prisoner escort company fined £4 million for contract breaches

JURY trials are expected to return to island courts in Scotland in the spring. It comes after assurances from prisoner escort company GEOAmey that it will be able to properly resource courts. Shetland MSP Beatrice Wishart welcomed the news, but said jury trials should resume...

A YOUNG man who lashed out at a former partner, causing her to require emergency dental treatment, has been ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work. Barry Coutts, from Cunningsburgh, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault when he appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court on...