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1 month ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Dave Finlay |Ryan Thom
John Etchells, 31, slashed his victim in the neck when he was playing football at an exercise yard at Edinburgh's Saughton jail before telling prison officers: "I'll not be threatened by any rodent."A violent prisoner who cut the throat of another inmate before making a phone call saying 'don't expect me home soon' was jailed for five and a half years today.
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2 months ago | 
thecourier.co.uk | Dave Finlay |Jamie Buchan
An unrepentant rapist who subjected two women to sex attack ordeals has been jailed for 11 years, after a judge told him he had “shown not a shred of remorse”. Shaun Stewart preyed on one victim repeatedly during a series of assaults at addresses in Fife during a catalogue of abuse that left her fearing she would be seriously hurt or killed.
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2 months ago | 
thecourier.co.uk | Dave Finlay |Jamie Buchan
A Fife sex offender who subjected a woman to repeated rape attacks and abused a young girl has been jailed for eight years. Mark Campbell targeted the adult victim in a catalogue of sexual and physical violence during which she was indecently assaulted and grabbed by the neck. Campbell, 49, also sexually assaulted the girl and threatened, pushed and throttled her, restricting her breathing, during violent episodes.
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2 months ago | 
thecourier.co.uk | Dave Finlay |Kirsty McIntosh
A former schoolteacher and swimming coach from Bannockburn was jailed for three years and 10 months after subjecting six young girls to sexual abuse over two decades. Michael McGlynn began targeting children in 1984 and continued offending against until 2005. A judge praised the courage of women who came to court to testify against McGlynn after he denied a series of charges during an earlier trial.
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2 months ago | 
thecourier.co.uk | Dave Finlay |Alan Richardson
A cocaine courier who told police in Dundee he had been involved in the illegal drugs trade for 30 years had been having “a joke” with officers, it has been claimed. Anthony Johnson, 64, was detained by police after transporting the drugs from Glasgow to Dundee. The high court previously heard he told officers he was involved in the illicit trade for 30 years.
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2 months ago | 
thetimes.com | Dave Finlay |Lizzie Roberts
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2 months ago | 
dailystar.co.uk | Jacob Farr |Dave Finlay |Claudia Trotman
A man has been jailed after being convicted of raping a woman in 2022 – as the woman had earlier dubbed her attacker a 'beast' in messages, according to court reportsNewsJacob Farr, Dave Finlay and Claudia Trotman Audience Reporter15:35, 08 Apr 2025Don Webley was sentenced to prison for rape (Image: Daily Record. )A vile rapist dubbed 'a beast' by his terror-stricken victim forced to flee half-naked into the street screaming for help, has been sentenced for seven years in prison.
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2 months ago | 
dailyrecord.co.uk | Dave Finlay |Rory Cassidy
Don Webley was jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh. The rapist brother of slain gangster Marc Webley has been jailed for seven years for a sickening sex offence which saw his victim running into the street half naked and screaming for help. Marc, 38, died after allegedly being gunned down outside a pub in Edinburgh ahead of the Bells on Hogmanay 2023. And his big brother Don was caged this morning at the High Court in the city for raping a woman in 2022.
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2 months ago | 
thecourier.co.uk | Dave Finlay |Alan Richardson
A sex offender guilty of child abuse in Dundee was placed on a community payback order for three years. A judge told Brandon Harrington, 26, at the High Court in Edinburgh she was satisfied that there was an alternative to a custodial disposal in his case. Harrington, of Ward Road, Dundee, was earlier convicted of causing a child to participate in sexual activity on an occasion between May 2011 and June 2013.
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2 months ago | 
thecourier.co.uk | Dave Finlay |Alan Richardson
Three men who started fires at two addresses in Fife, forcing firefighters to carry out a rescue, were collectively jailed for more than 30 years. Barry Baxter and Angus Guthrie, both 49, and 45-year-old Stuart Young were involved in setting fire to a flat and a house at Rosyth in the early hours of the morning on July 25 2023 at Duffy Place and Queensferry Road. Judge Lady Ross told the trio at the High Court in Edinburgh: “The wilful fireraising charges are serious.
