Scots weapons thug cleared of 'attack while wielding axe' on girlfriend

Police have confirmed they are treating the death of a young Ayrshire dad as murder after he was brutally killed in a random street attack.

A Scots dad has revealed his teen son made a heroic attempt to save a man after a fatal street attack.

Armed police raced to a tower block after a man threatened to stab his girlfriend and two pals he was holding hostage.

A 15-year-old Scot has been missing from his home for four days.

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Coatbridge around 9.10pm on Wednesday September 29. The 45-year-old was then seriously assaulted by the suspects and rushed to University Hospital Monklands for treatment.

hospitalised with a serious head wound after being set upon by a gang on a Scots street. The 20-year-old was attacked by three or four other men as he was walking near to shops in Nigel Rise, Dedridge, Livingston around 10pm on Thursday night.

Manchester Arena bombing, the public inquiry into the terror attack heard. Marion MacLeod had arrived outside the arena to collect her daughter Eilidh, 14, and her friend who had been to the Ariana Grande concert.

Police are hunting a ski mask wearing yob after a car was deliberately targeted in a late night fire attack. Emergency services were called to the scene on Anchor Crescent in Paisley at around 12.30am on Saturday, September 25.

police officer was left bloodied by his cop fiancée in an attack after a Covid lockdown-breaking bash, a court has heard. Police Constable Gordon Dunn, 33, said he was left "broken" and in tears after being assaulted by Lara McAulay, 31.

family is suffering 'unbearable heartbreak' after their Scots grandad vanished over a week ago. Paul Johnson disappeared without warning from his home in St Andrews which was ‘completely out of character’ for him.

Fife. Police are urgently appealing to the public to help trace Kelly-Ann MacDonald, who was last seen by a relative in Kirkcaldy’s Templehall Avenue at around noon on Thursday, September 16.

Fife who has been missing for nine days. Denis Findlay, who is from the Dunfermline area, was last seen at Edinburgh Waverley train station around 5pm on Tuesday, September 14.

drugs after cops spotted him “sweating profusely” in Edinburgh’s Waverley train station. Lee Brunton was approached by officers in the station who suspected he and a pal were “under the influence of something”.The 28-year-old was searched and 104 benzodiazepine tablets were recovered from his rucksack.Police also found four screwdrivers in the bag and Brunton, a painter and decorator, was arrested.

crash victims had previously been in prison for killing a schoolboy. We told how David Paton, 27, died alongside Manveer Benning, also 27, and 31-year-old Mark Downie following the smash on the M8 near Bishopton, Renfrewshire on Sunday morning.

Rutherglen at the weekend. A man and a woman, both aged 32, were attacked while walking on Cathcart Road, near to its junction with Farie Street, around 12.05am on Sunday.

missing Scots pensioner last seen two weeks ago. Graham McCausland has been reported missing from his home address in Elgin and was last seen around 8pm on Tuesday September 7.