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The trial in Dundee of Rachel Lessels has heard from a second witness who said she mistreated children in her care.

18.10.1958 – 28.6.2021 A revered leader for 30 years at Lyndale Secondary College has been showered with tributes at a funeral service at Springvale on 14 July. Mark Moir, 62, a father, grandfather, lifelong friend and Lyndale’s principal for nearly a decade, had died suddenly on 28 June. Stories of him were rich with his zest for life, loud infectious laugh, razor-sharp wit, cheeky personality and keen dress-sense. Colleague Brad Allen shared insights and memories of the “kind and gentle...

Fife drug dealer William Binnie says a locked Apple computer shows details of his non-criminal business dealings

A KILLER carer who murdered Margaret Fleming is ‘bedbound’ but fit to face a cash claw-back action, the High Court has heard. Lawyers for Edward Cairney, 79, were concerned that he wouldn’t be able to participate or understand why prosecutors were seeking to seize £182,000 from him under proceeds of crime legislation. However, judge Lord Summers yesterday heard how a psychiatrist had examined Cairney and concluded that he was fit to face the action. Cairney and accomplice Avril J...

David Lee Peters, 42, now of Middlesbrough, said he is relieved after being fount not guilty of breaking fox-hunting law A FORMER master of the Jedforest Hunt in the Borders has been cleared of breaking Scotlands fox-hunting law. Countryside campaigners welcomed the verdict while there have been fresh calls for a strengthening of the legislation after yet another case was thrown out of court. Police Scotland and the Crown felt there was enough evidence to press ahead with the prosecution ...

A MAN caught when police raided a cannabis factory was yesterday jailed for 45 months.

Updated: January 13, 2021, 7:41 pm © Kris Miller A 71-year-old woman has denied forcing soiled nappies and vomit into the mouths of children. Rachel Lessels allegedly carried out attacks on three children at an address in Fife between May 2006 and July 2009. The pensioner allegedly forced one child to walk outside naked before forcing another outside. Lessels denies the five charges against her at Dundee Sheriff Court. It is alleged the first child was wilfully ill-treated by Lessels between M...

A SCOTTISH independence activist based in the Borders has been cleared of threatening behaviour towards female witnesses called during former first…

A TEENAGER who brutally stabbed a man in the neck in a row over a phone has been jailed for six years. Matthew Owen, 19, was convicted after trial of attempting to murder Ali Karimi, 23, in Glasgows Drumchapel on July 13, 2018. The High Court in Glasgow heard that the neck wound was less than a millimetre from Mr Karimis carotoid artery. Sentencing Owen, who has no previous convictions, on Tuesday, December 29, judge Tom Hughes told him: “You struck Mr Karimi in the neck this could ea...

Glasgow drug gang ringleader who planned to flood Scotland with heroin and coke ordered to hand over £75,000 in dirty cash Anthony OHare, 34, made £650,000 from his criminal conduct but the available assets to be seized from him under a proceeds of crime action was £75,000. Anthony OHare (Image: Spindrift Photo Agency) Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our Criminal Record newsletter.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. ...