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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MARCH 30: Scottish Liberal Democrats Leader Willie Rennie poses for a photograph during campaigning for the Scottish Parliamentary Holyrood elections on March 30, 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland. Shot exclusively for the Sunday Herald to Health treatment not prison sentences are needed to tackle drug deaths the Liberal Democrats have warned. The LibDems obtained figures showing five times as many people convicted of possession of drugs received jail sentences than did a drug treatment order. For three years up to 2019, there were 605 people convicted of possession without intent to supply were sent to prison in the last three years. Meanwhile, only 108 people received a Drug Treatment and Testing Order during the same three-year period.
Evil carer who kept a toddler in cage and neglected starving child is spared jail
Serial Scots child abuser Claire Boyle and partner Timothy Johnstone were given unpaid work rather than being sent to jail.
Claire Boyle neglected a child for the third time. (Image: Daily Record.)
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