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  1. Lord Advocate statement on Diversion from Prosecution

    The Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain QC made this statement to the Scottish Parliament on Diversion from Prosecution.

    News Published: 22 Sept 2021
  2. Serial sexual offender given Order for Lifelong Restriction

    A serial rapist who terrorised six women in a long campaign of violent and sexual offending has be made subject to an Order for Lifelong Restriction.

    News Published: 02 Feb 2024
  3. Sophia Smith Fatal Accident Inquiry decision

    A decision has been made to hold an FAI into the death of baby Sophia Smith at the Royal Hospital for Children at the QEUH Campus, Glasgow on 11 April 2017.

    News Published: 22 Jan 2024
  4. Amanda Cox Fatal Accident Inquiry decision

    A decision has been made by Crown Counsel that a Fatal Accident Inquiry will not be held into the death of 34-year-old Amanda Cox at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

    News Published: 15 Mar 2022
  5. Senior prosecutor’s behaviour warning for young people after youth sentenced for fireworks offences

    Young people who engage in rioting and public disorder urged to consider the impact a criminal record will have on their lives, prosecutor Nail Almond warned.

    News Published: 04 Aug 2025
  6. Lawyer who stole £120,000 from client with dementia is jailed

    Former lawyer John Sinclair, who embezzled £120,000 from a pensioner suffering from dementia and living in a nursing home, has been jailed for two years. 

    News Published: 18 Jul 2023
  7. Fugitive jailed for the killing of his second cousin

    Fugitive Dean Ferguson, who tried to escape justice, has been jailed for six years and four months for the culpable homicide of his cousin Billy Joe Bates.

    News Published: 08 Jan 2024
  8. HMA V Andrew Innes: Statement from The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS)

    A statement following the conviction and sentence of Andrew Innes at the High Court in Edinburgh today for the murder of Bennylyn and Jellica Burke and the rape of another young girl.  

    News Published: 06 Feb 2023
  9. Seven jailed indefinitely for child sexual abuse

    Five men and two women have been jailed indefinitely for serious sexual abuse of children in the Glasgow area.

    News Published: 27 Jan 2025
  10. Petrol bomb gang jailed for 64 years

    Six men have been jailed for a total of 64 years and three months their part in a series of petrol bomb attacks in Greenock. 

    News Published: 30 Nov 2022