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Catriona Renton - BBC Scotland News January 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM The seven members of one of Scotland's biggest child sex abuse rings have been given life-long sentences which mean they may never ...
Katrina Parkes, Scotland’s Procurator Fiscal for High Court Sexual Offences, said: “I commend the bravery of the young victims; their strength has resulted in the conviction and sentence of ...
Seven people convicted of being part of a Scottish child abuse ring which plunged to “the depths of human depravity” have been jailed for terms ranging from 20 years to eight years.
Tobin was already serving two concurrent prison sentences in Scotland (which does not have the whole-life tariff) of 21 years and 30 years for the murders of Angelika Kluk and Vicky Hamilton respectively, but in December 2009 he was found guilty of Dinah McNicol's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment – this time with a whole life order.
On 16 October 2004, McAlinden, a convicted thief, prostitute, and homeless drifter, was released from prison, having served a nine-month sentence for a serious assault.. She visited a top-floor flat [2] on Dixon Avenue, in Crosshill, where her boyfriend David Gillespie, 42, lived with fellow tenant Anthony Coyle, 71, and landlord Ian Mitchell, 67, whom McAlinden referred as "Pop
An Order for Lifelong Restriction is a sentence that can be imposed by a judge of the High Court of Justiciary on serious violent and sexual offenders in Scotland.Such an order is an indeterminate sentence that will see the convict subject to indefinite imprisonment and supervision by electronic monitoring for the rest of their lives.
Marianne Gallagher, 40, was convicted of assault following an eight-week trial in 2023, which heard allegations of abuse which a judge said “plunges to the depths of human depravity”.
[2] [3] A fifth man, Zahid Mohammed, pleaded guilty to kidnapping, assault and lying to police and was sentenced to five years in prison. [5] He later went on to testify against the other four at their trials. [6] The case featured the first-ever conviction for racially motivated murder in Scotland. [7]