Scots murder victim's family demand urgent review into police investigation

Outlander actress Lauren Lyle will star as Karen Pirie in ITV cold case murder drama, based on author Val McDermid’s novel The Distant Echo. The new series will be adapted by Emer Kenny and will be produced by World Productions, the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard.True to Val McDermid’s iconic character, DS Karen Pirie is a young and fearless Scottish investigator with a quick mouth and tenacious desire for the truth.

boozy all-night party. Shan Marshall, 27, left Chantelle Mitchell permanently disfigured following the attack which happened in Cardenden in Fife.

family 'lifeline' as her disabled son's motability car was stolen. Bobbi Speirs, 30, was couldn't believe it after sick thieves stole the specially modified vehicle from 'right under her nose' on Friday night.

knifed her in the back - leaving her in a pool of blood at their holiday home almost four years ago.But after several delays she now can’t afford to quarantine under Covid rules if she returns to Scotland and if she does return may be barred entry back into Spain - which could jeopardise the trial.The 60-year-old, from East Kilbride, said she is a victim of crime but is being treated like a prisoner.She said: “I didn’t come to Spain to build sand castles.

£10,000 contract on Welsh. Baigrie, 38, has earned a fearsome reputation as a “hard nut” who was jailed for 12 years in 2013 over a samurai sword attack.

mum gave birth in her living room while her entire family were in the house and plumbers fitted her new washing machine next door.Amy Sheddon, 29, and husband Harry 32, welcomed baby son Angus at their Girvan home on April 26.The Girvan couple had planned to have a home delivery and had a birthing pool set up in their livingroom ready for the big day.However Angus made a very unexpected appearance when Amy's waters suddenly broke with no contractions, forcing her to give birth while their new

Liam Scott should have been locked up for at least eight years for the horrifying attack that ruined her life. She said: “When I heard he’d been given five years and four months, it floored me.“It wasn’t what I was expecting at all.

teenager has been charged in connection with the attempted murder of a man in West Dunbartonshire. We told how the 29-year-old victim was allegedly stabbed in the arms and chest in Dumbarton at around 10.20pm on Saturday, April 17.

devastating blaze will need to carry out demolition works themselves due to a lapse in the insurance. Jill Davies watched the Ashgill home she previously shared wth her late husband and childhood sweetheart Steve go up in flames.

missing Scots teenager who had been missing since Saturday. Emma Pollock, 13, was reported missing from the Shettleston area of Glasgow on Saturday.

NHS worker Lybi Halliday has been found following a frantic police search. The 21-year-old, from Hamilton, had vanished after a night out in Glasgow city centre on Friday, April 30 at around 11.30pm.

issing NHS worker Lybi Halliday, from Hamilton, did not come home after allegedly being "approached by a man" in Glasgow. Police are now frantically searching for Lybi after she was last spotted in the city centre at around 11.30pm on Friday, April 30.

Police have launched an urgent appeal to find a missing teen from East Lothian. Keira McLennan, who is also known as Keira Hamilton, has been missing from the Musselburgh area and was last seen on Saturday, May 1 at 5pm.

care home - after being described as a 'fire hazard', her outraged family claim.Former headteacher Susan Lynas, 75, was hospitalised after breaking her back last year and was unable to receive physiotherapy due to the pandemic.She gained weight due to being immobile for months and also contracted coronavirus, and is now suffering from long covid as well as severe asthma and diabetes.Gran-of-three Susan has been in an interim care home, Craigmair, in Livingston, West Lothian, which is run by the

raped a woman in Perth and carried out an indecent act in front of another has been jailed for more than four years.Craig Smart, 36, targeted the women between January 2017 and September 2017 at a property in the city centre.The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Smart attacked his first victim - who cannot be named for legal reasons - on January 17 that year.A jury was told he pinned his victim, who is now aged 31, on a bed before raping her.

Nicola Sturgeon blasted hundreds of anti vaccine campaigners who protested in Glasgow demanding for an end to lockdown. The First Minister tweeted her fury as photographs of protesters holding signs declaring Covid to be a hoax went viral across the internet.

toddler Sandy Davidson says the family are still desperate for answers - 45 years after he vanished.On what is the 45th anniversary of her brother's disappearance Donna Davidson says she and her parents are "living in limbo" and fear they may never learn what happened to tragic Sandy.Donna last saw her big brother when she was aged just two and Sandy was three-years-old, while the pair were playing in the sunshine at their grandparents' house in Bourtreehill, Irvine.It is believed Sandy ran out

Calderbank Main Street, North Lanarkshire, by damaging the external metal shutters and the entrance door at around 2am on Friday, April 23. Damage was caused to an internal door with the intention of forcing entry to a cash machine but they weren't able to gain access.They then fled the scene in a blue Audi estate car in the direction of Chapelhall and the M8.

threatened to carry out a mass killing. Bigoted pensioner Elaine MacDonald, 65, tried to tear the electric scooter apart with her bare hands and dragged the 100 kg machine along the street.