Police have launched an attempted murder inquiry after an early-morning blaze at a Scots home.
21.04.2023 - 04:03 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A mechanic has been banned from the roads after crashing into a bus and causing an 80-year-old passenger to suffer a bleed on her brain.
Boyd Gunn, 19, veered his car into a bus lane in Edinburgh, forcing the single decker’s driver to brake suddenly in a failed bid to avoid a collision.
Around 40 passengers were on the Lothian bus, including ten who were standing, and they were “propelled” forward in the impact.
Margaret Gray was taken to hospital by ambulance where she spent three weeks after being treated on a brain injury ward.
Gunn, 19, appeared at the city’s sheriff court on Wednesday and admitted a charge of causing serious injury to the pensioner by driving without due care and attention.
Fiscal depute Bruce McCrossan said the bus had been travelling in a bus lane on Stenhouse Drive at around midday.
Mr McCrossan said Gunn was driving a Ford Fiesta in the same direction in the second lane.
The court heard bus driver Kevin Kennedy was getting ready to halt at a bus stop a short distance after the junction with Stenhouse Gardens North.
The prosecutor said Gunn made a “late hard left turn” across the path of the bus.
He said Kevin braked but his bus collided with the nearside of the Fiesta.
Mr McCrossan said: “This caused a number of passengers to be thrown forward in their seats.”
The court heard Margaret was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where she was moved from A&E to a brain injury ward after the bleed on her brain was discovered.
Defence agent Andrew Houston said Gunn had been moving from “one lane to another” at a time when the buses only rule wasn’t operational.
Mr Houston said the bus was in his client’s blind spot and he “failed to look over his shoulder”.
He added: “He wasn’t sufficiently far ahead of the bus to
Police have launched an attempted murder inquiry after an early-morning blaze at a Scots home.
A sick paedophile who forced a teenager to have sex with him after giving her drugs had died in prison. Lenford Lloyd White was handed a ten-year sentence in 2018 when he was 64 years old.
Salford gran Laynie Nesbitt had been a yo-yo dieter for years, and had seen her weight continue to rise up to 19 stone. But in June 2020, a chance conversation would spark a life-changing journey that has seen Laynie lose seven-and-a-half stone in under a year.
cardiac arrest. The first-year Durham University Student had spent the day travelling through the French capital enjoying the sights on an electric bike. Later in the evening when getting ready for bed the teen from Shirley in England collapsed in the shower.
Two teens have been charged in connection with an incident in Elgin that left a man fighting for her life. A 25-year-old man was rushed to hospital with serious head injuries after being knocked to the ground in the high street area of the town at around 10.45pm on Sunday, April 30.
A woman who was bitten by a dog needed emergency surgery after going out leaflet dropping in her local area. Sharon Connor was shocked as she retrieved her hand from a letterbox to find it covered in blood.
A teenager has been killed in a horror road crash on a major Scots road in Argyll and Bute.
A body has been found in the search for a teenage boy who was reported missing after playing in a river.
Police have appealed for information after two teenagers were reported missing in the Edinburgh area.
A two-year-old girl who was sent home from hospital with constipation was diagnosed with a 15cm cancer tumor just days later.
Police have confirmed that a teen has been found dead at her school.
Heading back to the court. Nia Long’s ex-fiancé, Ime Udoka, has scored a new basketball coaching job following his suspension from the Boston Celtics.
A woman has been left with 'visible scars' for the rest of her life after being viciously attacked in her home by a neighbour with a drill. Jade Kent came in to her neighbour's house and launched a brutal attack with a Black and Decker electric drill.
The 'kingpin' of a £1million amphetamine lab and a paedophile who "traded" horrific child abuse videos on Snapchat have been jailed in the region of Liverpool in the last week. A teen who called police officers "little sausages" was also locked up.
An elderly cyclist has been rushed to hospital following a crash in an East Lothian town. Emergency services were called to Dunbar High Street at around 10.14 am on Sunday April 23 following reports of a crash between a cyclist and a silver Vauxhall Astra.
An urgent search has been launched for a teen who vanished from a North Lanarkshire town four days ago. Chelsea Roberts, 14, was last seen at Greenwood Crescent in Coatbridge at around 9pm on Wednesday April 19.
Two teenagers have been charged after a historic West Lothian site was reportedly vandalised. Officers were called to Linlithgow Palace at around 9pm on Thursday April 20 after the historic walls and flagstones were "defaced with paint".
A man contacted a woman on Gumtree and threatened to kill her with a chainsaw after refusing a date from him. Michael Curling, 48, hounded a total of six victims he met on the online selling site between July 2014 and 2017 from his then home in Thornliebank, East Renfrewshire.
Welcome to another edition of Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key execs and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we’re talking with British indie film veteran Phil Hunt, who is the founder of a raft of companies including production outfit and film financier Head Gear, international sales business Bankside and, more recently, New Zealand and Australian distribution genre label (Yet) Another Monster Company.
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man who forced his way into a toilet cubicle at a city centre nightclub. The teen had been at OMG bar on Victoria Street in Liverpool on Monday, April 3.