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Hannah Taylor and Lewis Conroy admit climbing the 98ft structure but deny breach of the peace.

Liam Hughes targeted his victims who were aged 14 and 15 in Falkirk and Grangemouth.

The widow of a cyclist killed after he was hit by a lorry tells a court she does not want retribution.

Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An “opportunistic” sexual predator who handcuffed a teenage girl on a bed and sexually assaulted her was jailed for 30 months. Andrew Boyne, 52, also sexually assaulted another teenage girl in a bed and breakfast. A sheriff said the fact the 16-year-old girl whom he handcuffed before assaulting had the functioning age of a much younger child made that offence “particularl...

By Tim Bugler © Tim Bugler Allister Linton A former businessman left “intimate” pictures of a local woman lying around a picturesque Perthshire village, a court heard. Residents in Abernethy who picked up the prints, one thinking they were discarded postcards, were shocked to find they were of the woman, topless. Prints ended up in other areas, including under the wipers of cars at a steelworks in Perth. Allister Linton, 65, admitted taking “various” consensual topless photos of ...

Murdered daughter Her solicitor Euan Gosney asked for a postponement of a hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act, which had been set for later this month because selling the last resting place of her tragic daughter’s cremated remains had shaken Duncan’s already-fragile mental state. He said he had concerns about Duncan’s health and her ability to provide instructions and give evidence if the hearing went ahead as planned. He said: “In 2014 her daughter was murdered. “That enough mig...