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© Shutterstock / OneSideProFoto Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A new project to support offenders leaving prison is intended to help drive down Dundee’s shocking rate of drug deaths. A Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce was set up to tackle the issue after the country recorded the highest rate in Europe. It has made funding available to provide one-to-one support for offenders leaving prison in Dundee, which recorded the most drug deaths per head of population in Scotland. The pilot is being launched by sup...

Deyan Nikolov was found dead in HMP Glenochil. A major probe into the mysterious death of a notorious ‘fixer’ involved in the murder of a prominent Fife businessman over a decade ago is still ongoing, authorities have confirmed. Deyan Nikolov, 33, a Bulgarian ex-bouncer from Kirkcaldy, was jailed for a minimum of 18 years back in 2012 after arranging for hitman Tencho Andonov to kill Toby Siddique at a house in Glenrothes in 2010. Deyan Nikolov. Prison sources surmised that Nikolov had either been using the bag to enhance the effect of taking drugs, or had been the victim of a botched sex...

Updated: January 11, 2021, 10:31 am © DCT Media A sketch of Harrow and Tasker before the fatal fight took place. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up They were three men who finished work at a slaughterhouse and ended up being involved in another one later the same evening. What should have been a relaxing conclusion to a gruelling shift of physical labour at the Wales Street premises in Aberdeen instead turned into one of the mo...

by Gordon Currie Updated: December 29, 2020, 9:22 am © DC Thomson & Co. Ltd The case was heard at Perth Sheriff Court. An assault trial has been delayed after a sheriff turned down an offer from the accused to host the court in his bedroom. James Scott, 60, made the bizarre offer to hold court in his home because he has a number of underlying health problems that make him high risk. His lawyer told Perth Sheriff Court that Scott was wheelchair-bound and bedridden, and was too afraid to attend a trial in a public courtroom during the pandemic. Solicitor Gary Fowlis told the court that S...

Arbroath accused offers to host court from bedroom as trial is put back amidst vaccine hopes by Gordon Currie © DC Thomson Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up An assault trial has been delayed to allow the accused to get the Covid vaccine after a Tayside sheriff turned down his offer to host the court in his bedroom. James Scott, 60, made the offer to hold court in his home because he has a number of underlying health problems which make him a high risk. His lawyer told Perth Sheriff Court that Scott was...