Edinburgh courts: Nine criminals handed sentences at Edinburgh's courts in January

Here is our round-up of Edinburgh’s courts in January, focusing on nine criminals who were handed sentences last month.

Criminals were in the dock for crimes including building a 3-D gun at home, possesing child abuse images and filming children undressing.

The teenager who used a 3D printer to build a deadly assault gun in his bedroom was spared jail, and instead ordered to wear an electronic tag and serve a three-year community payback order.

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While, an Edinburgh man who was caught with hundreds of shocking child abuse images - including two-year-old victims - was given an alternative to a jail sentence when he appeared in court in January.

And, a care assistant who left a nine-week-old baby with horror injuries after violently shaking the child was jailed last month and banned from having contact with his victim.

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