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Maureen Gunn embezzled thousands of pounds from her mother

Pensioner admits embezzling thousands of pounds from own mum

Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told this is the second sex attack carried out by Roderick Keith in recent years. Pic: File image

Violent doorman jailed for shocking abuse against six women

Thieves try to steal charity tin during restaurant break-in

Man jailed after police find 6,000 indecent child images on devices

Salvador Apellaniz, 32, pictured outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Hitler tattoo thug threatened to murder black man during racist rant

Pawel Twardowicz, 42, pictured outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Thug abused his partner and tortured the family cat

Abdikadir Adawa Ahmed, 20, pictured outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Man caught trying to smuggle £90,000 of cannabis at airport faces jail

Kevin Convery, pictured during the Paedo Hunter Group's online sting outside the Scottish Parliament.

Man who sent schoolgirl sick messages caught in sting

David, 55, and Jacqueline Aston, 58, were found guilty last week of causing neighbours fear and alarm by constantly recording their movements and making false reports about them to the police and local council.

Convicted couple may have to sell £500,000 home as part of sentencing

Leslie Rutherford, 69, pictured outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Pensioner caught with child abuse images escapes jail sentence

David and Jacqueline Aston have been found guilty of carrying out a hate campaign against their neighbours.

Disabled author and wife found guilty of hate campaign

Robert Cockburn outside the Edinburgh Sheriff Court

Pensioner who exposed himself in public toilets jailed

Anthony Ward was found with more than 85,000 pictures and videos of children being sexually abused

Man caught with child abuse images and videos jailed for 20 months

Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary - picture: Colin Hattersley

Pregnant woman loses baby after being assaulted by schoolboys

Alan Thorburn was volunteering with the fundraising for the Dreamflight charity when he began transferring the organisation’s cash into his own bank account.

Nurse stole more than £17,000 from disabled children's charity

Two women, aged 88 and 93, targeted in car-jacking by masked men

The car ran into the Robert Louis Stevenson statue in Colinton

Car crashes into popular statue

A dopey motorist was left red-faced after his car crashed into a prestigious £30,000 statue of Scots poet and writer Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Pregnant woman attacked by two schoolboys

John Diver was travelling along an Edinburgh road after refereeing two amateur football matches when he lost consciousness

Man suffered diabetic seizure and ploughed into car at 100mph

Graham Burton was speeding along a country road before losing control of his Vauxhall and crashing into the stationary car

Man banned from driving after crash which destroyed house porch

David Bracks regularly had sex with the 13-year-old child while she was “blackout drunk”

Man facing jail sentence after relationship with 13-year-old girl

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Labour Party activist tweeted about evidence during live trial

Angry residents staged a sit down protest at an historic Edinburgh village - in a protest over a “barmy” council proposal to install a new bin hub.

Residents stage protest as council installs bin hubs outside homes

Andrej Palicjuk outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court

Schoolgirl 'scared to death' after sexual assault on way home

A sales assistant who embezzled thousands of pounds while working at a charity hospital shop has escaped a jail sentence.

Sales assistant who stole £3,000 from hospital charity avoids jail

William Young sent images and videos to what he thought was a 12-year-old girl.

Man who sent videos to '12-year-old' snared by paedophile hunters

Eamonn Gallagher, 38, of West Lothian, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday, April 15 accused of assault to severe injury and danger of life.

Police officer who escaped jail caged after admitting second assault

Salvador Apellaniz, who also sports swastika inkings on his body, told two constables they would 'find a black man dead'

Man facing jail after murder threat during racist rant

A far-right thug who has a tattoo of Adolf Hitler on his arm threatened to murder a black man during a shocking racist rant at police officers.

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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

Man found guilty of sending threatening message to political leader

Noel Gallagher is among the icons Chris has been asked to portray

Ex soldier inks picture-perfect tattoos of football and music stars

Sulayman Njie, 33, and Njanko Njie, 24, attacked one of their cousins as they were all leaving the Edinburgh Sheriff Court

Brothers back in court after being caught attacking family member

Edinburgh dad dies after cardiac arrest as he drove through Belgium

Anthony Ward downloaded 85,000 images and videos

Child sex offender pleads for bail to say goodbye to his dying mother

Massage therapist admits sexual assault of two female clients

Man faces jail sentence over thousands of indecent images of children

Eamonn Gallagher, 38, of West Lothian, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday, April 15 accused of assault to severe injury and danger of life.

Man who stalked former SNP candidate jailed

Robert Agnew contacted a social media account who he believed belonged to a 14-year-old girl.

Man who sent sexual messages to '14-year-old girl' avoids jail

Hayley Matthews has been jailed.

Presenter jailed after embezzling £120,000 from dementia suffering mum

A large demonstration was held outside one of the country’s busiest court buildings in support of a pensioner who was due to stand trial.

Protest held outside court as pensioner was due to stand trial

Andrew Weyzig, 50, is fighting for his life

Fundraiser launched for dad who is fighting for life in hospital

Colin Mowatt made the “very foolish decision” to make the overtaking manoeuvre

Man who left motorcyclist with life-changing injuries avoids jail

Robert Greens has been dubbed the Da Vinci rapist after he carried out a horror sex attack near Rosslyn Chapel

Da Vinci rapist back behind bars after attack on ex-wife

Jamie Shiel has been jailed

Man who ordered mother to sexually abuse her own daughter jailed

Dannis Oseman, 21, pictured outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Man fined for hiding fireworks from police during bonfire night mayhem

Eamonn Gallagher, 38, of West Lothian, appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday, April 15 accused of assault to severe injury and danger of life.

Landlord accused of owning “multiple occupation” flats without licence

Paul Marshall, 58, pictured outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court.

Violent abuser jailed for 16 months for attacks on his wife

Man appears in court charged with attempted murder of a police officer