Rising legal costs have driven Edinburgh City Council to announce that they plan to take Portobello Park Action Group (PPAG) to court to recover costs incurred so far as a result of their attempts to block the building of a new secondary school on Portobello Park. The group said this week that they plan to appeal [...]
Lennon’s nail bombers convicted
March 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Trevor Muirhead, 44, and Neil McKenzie, 42, have been convicted of plotting a nail bomb attack against Celtic manager Neil Lennon after a five week trial at Glasgow High Court. The men were found guilty of conspiring to send the package. The pieces of mail they sent last year were designed to injure but actually [...]
Car emblems stolen from Audis and BMWs
March 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Five cars in total have been vandalized while they were parked on Bellevue Road and in the McDonald’s car park located on the same street. Both are in the Broughton Area. Hood ornaments are popular prey for vandals all over the world. Edinburgh BMWs and Audis have recently been stripped of their firmly placed logos. [...]
Update: Family says death of Edinburgh victim a “devastating loss”
March 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The family of John Carter who was beaten and left to die in a lift in Edinburgh’s Salamander Court in February last year have said “nothing can lessen the heartache we have gone through”. Their statement comes a few hours after Simon Brown and Paul Banks were found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced in [...]
Man charged for murder in Saughton Park
March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A 47-year-old man has been charged with the murder of the man who was found dying of his injuries in Saughton Park on Saturday. He is appearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court today. The police named the victim as taxi driver Ebrahim Aryaei Nekoo, 41, who was discovered in the east part of the park at [...]
Pistol pensioner spared jail
March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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A 64 -year- old grandmother has been spared jail from the High Court of Edinburgh today after standing trial for illegal possession of a revolver. Kathleen Woodward was arrested after admitting that she kept a Harrington and Richardson pistol in her house without a license. The gun, which had owned by the by her late husband, [...]
Police still searching for Suzanne Pilley’s body
March 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
by Gavrielle Kirk-Cohen The family of murdered Scot, Suzanne Pilly, have pleaded to David Gilroy to reveal where their daughter’s body is buried. Gilroy was found guilty yesterday of murdering Suzanne Pilley. The Lothian and Border’s Police believe that Suzanne Pilley’s body has been buried in a “lonely grave” in Lochgilphead, Argyll in the Scottish [...]
Edinburgh couple robbed in ‘terrifying’ ordeal
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
An Edinburgh couple have been held at knife-point and robbed in their own home. A group of armed men entered the house on Barnton Avenue West at around nine thirty on Friday evening. Police have disclosed that a four figure sum of money and jewellery were taken from the house. It is believed that two [...]
A woman shot in Peckham after shopping trip
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A woman is currently recovering in hospital after being shot in Peckham. The 30-year-old was shot by a stray bullet during a dispute between two men. The incident happened at around 17:15 on Sunday, 11 March, on Bournemouth Road close to Rye Lane, while the woman was returning home from a shopping trip. An investigation [...]
Paul McBride, QC (1963 – 2012)
March 5, 2012 By 1 Comment
One of Scotland’s top criminal lawyers, Paul McBride has represented clients in some of the country’s most high-profile cases. Son of George and Mary McBride, he was educated in Glasgow. At just 19, McBride graduated from Strathclyde university with a degree in Law. He was called to the Bar in Scotland in 1988 and in [...]
Top Scottish lawyer found dead in hotel room
March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
One of Scotland’s leading lawyers was found dead in a hotel room in Pakistan at the weekend. Initial reports suggest Paul McBride QC had died in his sleep. It has been said that Mr McBride felt unwell in the lead up to his death and his body was discovered by friend and colleague, human rights [...]
Scotland rugby star Max Evans breaks down recalling brother’s injury
March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
2nd March The Scotland rugby international broke down in Edinburgh Sheriff Court today after recalling the 2009 Six Nations tournament in which he and his brother Tom played. Defence counsel Kevin McCallum asked about his brother’s injury. “Tom broke his neck in a rugby game, an international game for Scotland”, replied Evans. “Am I right [...]
Mother and son plead guilty to ‘paedophile’ killing
March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A mother and her son have pleaded guilty to culpable homicide following the death of a 57-year-old man from head injuries. He died nine months later in a nursing home. Paul Noble, who was 15 at the time, and his mother Williamina Stewart, 37, attacked Gordon Morrice at playing fields in Aberdeen’s Golf Road in [...]
Mob justice is no justice
March 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The killing of Gordon Morrice is an extreme example of a wider attitude in society: paedophiles are fair game for mob justice. Not all paedophiles will experience violence leading to brain damage and death – as Morrice suffered – but without doubt they are treated as the modern-day lepers of society. Like the lepers of [...]
Court hears phone abuse evidence in murder case
November 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A millionaire made infuriated threats in an enraged phone call to his brother, Toby, hours before Toby was killed, the high court heard. Later that day, Toby Siddique, 38, was murdered in his flat on Forres Drive in Glenrothes on October 25 2010. His brother, Mo Siddiq, 34, was charged with murder and conspiracy to [...]
Second sexual attack takes place in the Meadows
November 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A second sexual assault has taken place on the Meadows, only a week after a similar attack was reported. The second attack took place on Tuesday November 22nd between 6:50 and 7pm, alongside the Meadows tennis courts. The 21 year-old victim was running alongside the courts when she was forced to the ground by a [...]
Cricket in a right old ‘fix’
November 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Disgraced former Pakistan Captain Salman Butt and promising 19-year-old sensation, Mohammad Amir, lost their appeals yesterday when the Lord Chief Justice dismissed their claims of disproportionate sentencing in the Lord’s spot fixing case. On November 3, Pakistan’s Butt, Amir and Mohammad Asif were convicted of spot fixing and sentenced to prison. Butt was given a [...]
Edinburgh High Court: Scot’s Corroboration Laws Contested
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Kate Thomson Changes in Scots Law were proposed this morning by Lord Carloway in a review of the country’s criminal justice system. He said the proposals “re-cast” the legal system for the 21st century. Scot’s law has long been criticised for being dogmatic in treatment of suspects’ rights. As it stands, suspects do not [...]
Woman sexually assaulted in Meadows
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Kirsten Hayley Waller Police are still making inquiries after a woman was sexually assaulted in the Meadows on Tuesday morning. The attack took place at roughly 3:30am, somewhere between Melville Drive and Warrender Park Crescent. The woman, aged 19, was attacked by two men, believed to be in their early 20s. After attacking the [...]
Breaking News: man charged with Gray murder
March 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Celeste Carrigan Pawel Rodak a 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Roger Gray, retired lecturer. He has appeared in private at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. The charges made were culpable and reckless conduct, and endangering the lives of people in the building and surrounding area. No declaration or plea was made on [...]
Man in court following death in Merchiston, Edinburgh
March 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Celeste Carrigan A 20-year-old man is due in court later today at Edinburgh’s Sheriff Court. He was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the murder of Roger Gray. The murder of Gray, a 64 year-old retired lecturer, is the third homosexual related murder in a month. His body was found in his home in [...]
Hopes fade for World’s End murder families
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Katy Docherty and David Walsh The families of the World’s End murder victims are set to have their hopes dashed when the Double Jeopardy Bill goes before Holyrood. The current law prevents a person from standing trial for the same crime twice but will be scrapped in a session of the Scottish Parliament tomorrow. [...]
Stopping the Traffickers
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Tony Garner Scotland may be set for its first child trafficking prosecutions after the release of a report claiming the extent of the problem is much worse than previously feared. Clare Tudor of the Scottish Refugee Council told Napier News that police had taken two individuals into custody. Tudor told Napier News that children [...]
Second mugging in the Grange
March 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
by Michael Mckeand Mansionhouse Road in the heart of the Grange, one of Edinburgh’s more middle class areas, was the scene of another mugging this week. It follows a similar incident in which a man of a similar description attacked a pensioner on Findhorn Place a few streets away. Check out the full story [...]
Cardinal O’Brien visits convicted child killer in hospital
March 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
By Georgi B Cardinal Kieth O’Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland visited a woman in hospital who confessed to murdering her three children, it is believed.
