Jackie Doig News Today

Michigan’s massive welfare reform, which removed 15,000 families from cash assistance in its first year, was never the law of the land. That may be about to change.

Jackie Doig stabbed his former friend Frankie Melvin to death in Arbroath in a dispute over stolen drugs, Dundee High Court heard.

Jackie Doig is jailed for 10 years for the culpable homicide of Frankie Melvin in Arbroath.

A kitchen implement-themed Friday courts round-up for Tayside and Fife featuring a rolling pin, cleaver and eggs.

A 71-year-old man who found himself in the dock for making a hoax 999 call is among those featured in our daily court round-up.

Jackie Doig admitted knifing Frankie Melvin in the backside after a row over street Valium.

Giving evidence at his trial in the High Court of Dundee, Jackie Doig said: "If it wasn't him, it would have been me."

A family battled to save their friend Frankie Melvin who had been "stabbed" metres from their front door, a murder trial has heard.

Frankie Melvin succumbed to his wound shortly after an altercation with Jackie Doig in August 2020, Dundee High Court has heard.

Jackie Doig is on trial accused of murdering 34-year-old Frankie Melvin in the town's Spitalfield Place in August 2020.