Category Archive for : ‘SCOTLAND’

September 11, 2019
Sally Hind
Daily Record

The mum of Alesha MacPhail yesterday warned that her daughter’s teen killer will murder again, as his minimum sentence was slashed by three years.
Georgina Lochrane told the Record of her fury as appeal judges reduced the punishment part of Aaron Campbell’s 27-year sentence to 24 years – meaning the fiend who raped and murdered her six-year-old daughter on the Isle of Bute last summer could now be considered for release at the age of 40.
Georgina, 24, said vile Campbell, 17, had succeeded in “playing the system”

March 9, 2020
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LONDON – Scottish ex-First Minister Alex Salmond, one of Scotland’s best-known politicians, is due to go on trial Monday accused of sex crimes including attempting to rape a woman at the leader’s official residence.
Salmond, 65, faces a total of 14 charges — one of attempted rape, 11 alleged sexual assaults and two alleged indecent assaults — against 10 women between 2008 and 2014. He denies all the allegations.
Salmond stood between security guards in the dock at the High Court in Edinburgh at the start of the

October 17, 2019
Mark Daly, Craig Williams
BBC

Rangers have consistently said they sacked Gordon Neely in 1991 after a complaint from worried parents and then reported him to the police.
But the new evidence shows that is not what the club said publicly at the time – and Neely’s alleged victim insists a police report was never made.
Rangers denied a cover-up.
Gordon Neely coached children at Hutcheson Vale, Hibernian and Rangers in the 1980 and 90s. A BBC Scotland investigation in 2017 revealed the extent of his abuse at those three clubs, including allegations

In a candid interview with the Observer newspaper Sunday, Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, famed for his flowing locks and impudent humor, has revealed he suffered years of sexual abuse as a child at the hands of his father.   The abuse was a dark secret through most of his life, only revealing it to his wife after his father William died in 1989.   He and his sister were raised by his father and two aunts in poverty in Glasgow after his mother left the family when he was three.  He told