Kellen Barr News Today

A violent serial shoplifter used knives, golf clubs and even a dirty needle as weapons against anyone who tried to stop him.

Cocaine was seized in Aberdeen and a mobile phone belonging to Stonehaven man Cameron Howey contained messages related to the supply of drugs. 

An ungrateful lodger throttled the friend he was renting a room from and broke her wrist after she rescued him from homelessness.

Monika Godlewska was six-times the limit when she was caught by police on New Year's Eve, Banff Sheriff Court was told.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, hit a mum who was driving her young family through Turriff town centre.

Katie Lynch told SSPCA inspectors that she had nothing to do with lurcher Dexter and just assumed her eight-year-old daughter was taking care of him.

Repeat offender Paul Dodds was placed on the register in February 2020 but accessed banned images just one week later.

Shea McGarrell, 20, drunkenly went for a wander near the railway tracks in Portlethen before being found by a search party.

Shea McGarrell, 20, drunkenly went for a wander near the railway tracks in Portlethen before being found by a search party.

A man has admitted threatening to burn his mum's house down after she refused to let him into the property.