Vile Scots rapist who called victim 'a drama queen' jailed for horrific abuse against three kids and two women

prison officer who brutally slashed a man he believed had raped a woman was today jailed for three years and nine months. Gary Grimes, 39, attacked his victim with a Stanley knife-type weapon in a pub in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire in December 2018.

Richard Leonard would be putting his party first if he stood down as Scottish leader.Lord Foulkes said Scottish Labour needed “credible leadership” to take on the SNP but claimed Leonard was not breaking through with voters.He added that deputy Jackie Baillie could take over on an acting basis for the Holyrood election.Keir Starmer has seen his personal poll ratings soar since becoming UK Labour leader earlier this year.However Leonard, a left winger who has been in post for nearly three years,

racist abuse.Debora Kayembe, 45, has compared the racially motivated attacks she's suffered in the Midlothian town she lives in as 'like Alabama in 1964' - the epicentre of the US Civil Rights movement where black people were subjected to abhorrent racism.Single mum-of-two Debora, who lives in Bonnyrigg with her two teenage children, left her home in the Congo in 2005 after a backlash against her investigative work into a massacre of women and children put her life at risk.  She has forged a

stabbed a Scots housing association worker who was trying to help him has been jailed for life. Peter Cannon launched the unprovoked attack on Lynne Robertson as she sat behind her desk at River Clyde Homes, Greenock, on September 30 last year.

lockdown, a new study has found. More than 35 per cent of women in the UK say they have experience at least one sexist demand while working from home since March this year.

raped and assaulted a 15-year-old girl has been detained for more than three years. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday having earlier admitted his brutal crimes.

Love Island winner Paige Turley held off going to the toilet for a poo during her first three days inside the famous ITV2 villa. The reality TV star from West Lothian ended her lengthy wait to go for a number two by dashing into the toilet while all of the Islanders were outside.

Queen's Scots estate have discovered a whole campsite left dumped- just weeks after warning about people going to the toilet on the site.Camping chairs, a trolley, a campfire, rucksacks as well as five tents have been apparently abandoned on the Balmoral estate, near Braemar in Aberdeenshire.Fuming bosses have tweeted about the find - urging visitors to 'leave no trace'.Last month Balmoral chiefs said they had been discovering 'increasing quantities of human waste' left about the sprawling

paedo monster husband by identifying his willy in sordid photographs sent online to ‘young girls’.

road rage attacker who drove at 40mph with his victim clinging to the bonnet has been locked up.Boy racer mechanic Josh Mills sped off with 64-year-old Gordon Davidson hanging on to his car for dear life.Gordon’s ordeal in Dundee took place after he tried to take a photo of Mills in the wake of a run-in over a badly parked car.Prosecutor Eilidh Robertson told the city’s sheriff court the incident was sparked by Mills blocking a narrow street with his Seat Leon.The men “exchanged words” and Mills

raped a teenage girl before threatening to “ruin her” has been jailed for four years. William Hailes ignored the 16-year-old’s frantic pleas for him to stop during the horrendous attack at a house in Livingston, West Lothian, on November 8 last year.

quarantining visitors.Beth MacLeod, who runs the Knockderry Country House Hotel in Argyll, said she has received three calls a day from people worried about whether they can come to Scotland.In a message to Nicola Sturgeon, who has not closed the door on a cross-border quarantine, Beth said: “I would like her to make it clear that English visitors are welcome in Scotland.”It comes after Marc Crothall, chief executive of the Scottish Tourism Alliance, said that some customers from south of the

Police have issued a warning after residents in the Borders were targeted by scammers. Officers today told how people in the Duns area, near Kelso, have been receiving calls claiming to be from Essex Police trying to get personal information.

Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.Hairdressers and indoor shopping centres were preparing to reopen this week, as Scotland moved into phase three of lockdown.From Monday indoor stores, such as those at Dumbarton’s Bell Arcade, could open for the first time since March.However the major news was that hairdressers and barbers could reopen from Wednesday for residents who have gone for more than four months without having their hair done.And Mary McAdam of

stroke.Darren Dawson was getting ready for school when he suffered a bleed to his brain caused by an anomaly that affects just one in 100,000 people a year.It left the 14-year-old paralysed down his right side and medics faced a race against time to save him.But thanks to the family’s labrador Douglas, Darren got to hospital in time.His mum Liz was making breakfast when the pup, now nine months, refused to eat his food and started pacing between her and the door.

schoolboy son was forced into harming himself after evil blackmailers threatened to kill her. Rocky Gyoury was left terrified after being tricked by an online account with the name 'Jonathon' who demanded he send ‘proof’ of his injuries.

missing Scots mum who vanished in Clackmannanshire. Joanne Walker was last seen leaving her home in Stalker Avenue, Tillicoultry, at around 10pm on Friday.