Scots mum of boy raped by older kids given apology by Humza Yousaf over case failures

Paul Burgess was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in 2016 for shaking 15-week-old Zaiidyn Burke to death.The brute pled guilty to culpable homicide after inflicting fatal brain injuries when he was left in charge of the tot for an hour.Just over four years after he was locked up, Burgess, 29, is living less than 25 miles from Zaiidyn’s mum, Jade Caven.Jade, 30, said: “This feels like a huge kick in the teeth.“Where he’s been placed is just a drive away from my home in Dumfries.

mum is facing an agonising wait for a transplant after a traumatic premature birth of her 1lb baby uncovered hidden kidney disease.Doctors discovered 23-year-old Lauren Ballantine had been living with underlying kidney disease after she underwent an emergency Cesarean section when she was just 25-weeks pregnant.The young mum, from Newmilns, had been suffering from potentially fatal pre-eclampsia and was rushed to Crosshouse Hospital at 24 weeks pregnant.Doctors we able to stabilise the East

Bathgate, West Lothian, has been left in chaos after workmen failed to install the new wet wall suite she paid more than £2,000 up front for.The 60-year-old’s old bathroom was ripped out after she signed a deal with Supreme Wetwall Bathrooms.But when the subcontractor assigned to refit it repeatedly stalled on the job, plumber Luke Campbell took the opportunity to have a snooze – a day after the work should have been finished.The stunned mum told how she “blew a gasket” after snapping this photo

lockdown completely alone as she battled breast cancer but she still managed to pass her exams – and has been named Student of the Year.Samantha Currie, 37, even found time to cut off her own long hair, before undergoing chemotherapy, which she donated to the Little Princess Trust to make wigs for child cancer patients. The remarkable mum of two spent 14 weeks apart from her beloved sons Max, five, and Robbie, 10, which was a painful separation.

baby loss and help others enduring a similar ordeal. Angela Kenney was 'naive' to the devastation baby loss causes, tuntil her unborn child's heart stopped beating on June 30 this year.

Nazi pug lout Mark Meechan has blasted justice chief Humza Yousaf as an “authoritarian fascist” in an online rant.

'mumfluencer' is something that has proved vital for the education and entertainment of parents across the country in recent years. No longer do we need to rely on boring old NHS guides or our friends and family who have been there before to figure out what we're in for when we start on the daunting journey of pregnancy then into parenthood.

week ago. Ian Cameron was spotted getting in his car at his home in Milray Avenue, New Cumnock, Ayrshire to drive to work around midnight on Tuesday, October 6.

ASDA worker who performed life-saving first aid after she suffered a brain aneurysm in store.Mum-of-three Lisa Colborne became seriously unwell and collapsed at the Tranent store in East Lothian last month.Store worker Lauren Watt rushed to help the unconscious shopper and carried out CPR for 15 minutes while waiting for an ambulance to arrive.Lisa, from Edinburgh, was raced to the Western General Hospital where she had emergency surgery to stem the bleeding.The 39-year-old, who also developed

Nicola in a wheelie bin and dumped her in undergrowth yards from her home in Lewes. He stood with his thumb to his lips in the dock at Hove as the jury returned their unanimous verdict after around three hours deliberation.

cancer after complaining of symptoms for five years. Kay Richards, 40, claims she was made to believe her symptoms, including body aches, weight loss and a persistent sore throat, were due to severe health anxiety and depression and was referred for counselling by her doctor at the Charleston Surgery in Paisley.

by a gang of intruders who had smashed their way into their house.The 45-year-old was forced to listen as the gang set about her son and left him with serious injuries including a punctured liver, two abdominal wounds, one to each buttock and his thigh.Detectives have launched an investigation and are treating the incident, which happened in Edinburgh last night shortly after 11pm, as attempted murder.Police sources said the drama kicked off when the 19-year-old victim and his brother were

breast cancer believes she wouldn’t be here today if she hadn’t pushed medics to take her health fears seriously. Lori Delaney, 34, was diagnosed with an aggressive stage three form of the disease this time last year after being repeatedly told she was too young to be at risk.

firework fears there will be more injuries this year after public displays were cancelled.Amy McCabe’s son Ben was just four when a stray rocket from a display near his home in Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, flew inside his jacket and exploded on his chest.Ben, now 13, suffered third degree burns to his chest, neck, right arm and behind his left ear.Amy has backed calls for a ban on the public sale of fireworks so no one else has to go through the agony her son suffered.This year many public firework

mum has vowed to fight to see her little boy grow up after being given less than 12 months to live - just weeks after being told she had beaten cancer.

mum with two Down's syndrome children is urging people to be more accepting of the condition and "stop the stares". Christina Logan's son Mikey, 10 and nine-year-old daughter Missy, both have Down's syndrome and she says at times, they have suffered from people's ignorance.

miracle Scots tot who suffers from genetic conditions says her daughter wouldn’t be walking if it wasn’t for lockdown. Little Luna-Marvella, from Balornock, Glasgow, was diagnosed with two rare developmental conditions at birth and doctors told mum Holly Short, 28, that her baby girl would be unable to sit up or walk for years.

son to spend his 21st 'birthday in heaven' over a year after his body was found.Rhys Bonner was just 19 when he was found dead, half naked, on August 8 last year, on marsh ground between Glasgow's Easterhouse and Gartloch Village.The teenager had been reported missing on July 24 sparking a massive search.His death is being treated as unexplained. Mum Stephanie today has been reflecting on what would have been her son's 21st birthday- including putting a bottle of beer on a special memorial bench

mum's witty Instagram post slamming Nicola Sturgeon 's Covid restrictions for 'neglecting' mums and toddlers has gone viral. Yasmin Myles posted a simple but effective illustrated message onto her Instagram stories about how the Scottish Government were "leaving pre-schoolers behind' with the latest restrictions.