Thomas Hamilton condemned nine-year-old Francis McGowan to a desperate life of drug addiction, crime, jail and despair. Now 52, Francis has blasted the Scottish Government for shutting the door in his face when he’s been begging for help.
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Jock' Reid carried out the vicious attack on 46-year-old Elaine Collie at her home in the Muirhouse area of Edinburgh in 1999. He was convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh and prison bosses have since confirmed he died on July 31 at HMP Glenochil.
Thomas Hamilton condemned nine-year-old Francis McGowan to a desperate life of drug addiction, crime, jail and despair. Now 52, Francis has blasted the Scottish Government for shutting the door in his face when he’s been begging for help.
Glasgow. Cops raced to the Bay Street area at around 3:30pm on Saturday, August 21.
small fishing boat capsized off the North East coast near Stonehaven. The stricken vessel was discovered upturned by a passing boat who raised the alarm with HM Coastguard at around 3.30pm on Saturday.
NHS crisis. And exactly a week later 67-year-old Helena Walker was kept waiting eight hours for an ambulance before spending another eight hours on a trolley in a hospital corridor after a stroke.
killer known as the Muswell Hill Murderer whose despicable crime spree had appalled the nation. “My name is Dennis Nilsen.
falling from scaffolding in Aberdeenshire. George Forbes, 77, passed away after falling at St Peter's Episcopal Church in Peterhead at around 3pm on Wednesday, August 18.Emergency services scrambled to the scene but the pensioner could not be saved.
heart attack has told how a neighbour rushed him to hospital – after an ambulance failed to arrive. Michael Heafey, 62, said that had it not been for the quick actions of his wife Grace, 63, and neighbour Joan Ralston, who bundled him into a car, he wouldn’t have survived.
'disturbance' in a Scots garden last night. The 41-year-old died at the scene at Lingerwood Road, Newtongrange in Midlothian despite the best efforts of emergency crews.
Paisley, who is due to get married on Sunday, was struck down with the virus after returning from a holiday to Ibiza with friends in July. Just two days after returning home, on July 18, he began to feel unwell before testing positive for the virus two days later following a PCR test.
stroke victim has been left feeling like "a prisoner in his own home" after being stuck in a top floor flat. Graeme Baxter's life was turned upside down when he suffered a devastating total anterior circulation infarct (TACI) on June 17 last year.TACI is a type of cerebral infarction affecting the entire anterior circulation supplying one side of the brain, and the 56-year-old has been left completely paralysed down the left side of his body since falling ill.
Love Island has bid farewell to another Scot as Dale Mehmet has been dumped from the villa. Abigail Rawlings, who was coupled up with Dale, was also dumped as the islanders decided to send the pair home in a brutal dumping.
Largs, Ayrshire.Jurors heard claims the 26-year-old may have earlier cheated on Miss Basinka.The 23-year-old victim ended up with her ear almost severed, badly bruised and also needing plastic surgery for an injury near her left eye. Cameron returned to the High Court in Glasgow having earlier been found guilty of attempted murder.
court as a witness. Scott Bennett, 40, is alleged to have been threatened by Andreas Garifalou, 34, and John McDuff, 37, in Strathaven, Lanarkshire.
died behind bars.Andrew McKinlay was ordered to serve a minimum of 15 years in prison for murdering mum-of-three Josephine Steele at her home in Glasgow. He left the 45-year-old with five deep stab wounds, several other cuts as well as defensive wounds during the brutal attack in October 2013.
PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happensHe revealed a punk rock archivist in New York had made contact to seek additional information on the Paisley punk scene, while a London record label is now wanting to put out a compilation album featuring material that went out on the Groucho Marxist label locally.Loudon added: “It’s a tricky one as those records were financed from a fund held by the local branch of the Socialist Workers Party, I believe, and were all pulled together by a character
Scots serial killer Dennis Nilsen hunted victims. Crime fans will pay £29.99 for the excursion, which features a trip to the boozer where the Fraserburgh-born murderer lured his prey during a 15-year reign of terror.Nilsen died in 2018, more than 35 years after being caged for life for killing up to 15 men he picked up from the streets.
probe after shocking footage of men being 'brutally' battered in a Scots street.We told earlier today how the rammey in Bellshill, Lanarkshire had been caught on camera showing a man being repeatedly punched and kicked in the head as he lay helpless on the ground.Brutal pictures show punches and kicks raining down on the man on Hamilton Road near to the Bellmill Hotel.A woman tries to intervene and the man stands up and kicks his victim on the head before walking off.Four men and a woman can be
stabbing an ex-bodybuilder to death has died in prison. Marius Bauba, who flouted eight different bail orders when he knifed Morgan Dunn in the heart last year, was found by guards at HMP Shotts, North Lanarkshire, on Saturday, where he was serving an almost 10-year sentence.