Tuesday's headlines: Most dangerous Scots con murdered fellow inmate and man charged over 'bomb threats'
05.07.2022 - 21:13
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Good evening and welcome to today's Daily Record headline briefing. The rundown keeps you up to date with the latest news from Scotland and beyond.
Today's top headlines include: Scotland's most dangerous con murdered fellow inmate, man charged over 'bomb threats' after holidaymakers evacuated from Scots airport and mum thought brain tumour symptoms were hay fever.
Here is everything you need to know to keep up to date.
One of Scotland's most dangerous prisoners is likely never to be freed after he admitted murdering a fellow inmate. James O'Rourke - already a convicted killer - choked to death Dean Ramsey, 30, in what a judge described as a "brutal execution".
The 52 year-old was then clocked shaking hands with other prisoners at HMP Glenochil in Clacks after the attack on January 9 2021. He boasted: "Just because I am old, he thinks I am dafty. Well, it cost him his life."
O'Rourke was today sentenced to a minimum 23 years after he pled guilty to a murder charge at the High Court in Glasgow. He has been behinds bars at various prisons since 1992.
Read more HERE.
A man has appeared in court charged with causing a Scottish airport to be evacuated by making bomb threats.
Christopher Williams, 23, appeared in the dock at Paisley Sheriff Court today following an incident at Glasgow International Airport yesterday. Williams, of no fixed abode, faces three charges in relation to his alleged conduct and is now banned from entering the airport.
Read more HERE.
A Scots mum initially thought her tumour symptoms were being caused by hay fever before medics discovered a golf-ball sized mass in her brain. Suzanne Davies was given just 12 months to live after being diagnosed with a glioblastoma multiforme in 2014 - but has beaten the