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#StopItNow is the new hard-hitting campaign from Police Scotland that directly addresses predators who attempt to engage with children online for sexual purposes. Police Scotland has teamed up with Stop It Now! Scotland, a national child protection charity based in Edinburgh, which provides support services to individuals and their families with problematic sexual thoughts and

At the High Court in Glasgow last Friday, Lord Matthews sentenced 16-year-old Aaron Campbell to detention without limit of time, with a minimum term of 27 years, after he was found guilty of the abduction, rape and murder of Alesha MacPhail. During his nine-day trial, not only had Campbell repeatedly denied the offences but he

The BDO’s most recent FraudTrack report found that Scotland ranked as the fourth most defrauded region in the UK by value, as fraud rocketed by 88 per cent from £16.2 million in 2017 to £30.4 million last year. The analysis, which examines reported fraud cases over £50,000 in the UK, discovered London and the South East

Sentencing guidelines must be reviewed as a “matter of urgency” after a teenager who repeatedly sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl walked free from court, Scottish Labour has announced. Despite being found guilty of repeated sexual assaults on the girl over two years, Christopher Daniel, an 18-year-old dental student from Glasgow, was granted an absolute discharge

A tipper truck driver who was responsible for causing the death of a woman after driving on the wrong side of the road was sentenced to more than three years’ imprisonment at Glasgow High Court yesterday. On the 14th January 2019, Michael Friel, now aged 57, pled guilty at Edinburgh High Court to causing the