Police Scotland staff have been given a script defending Humza Yousaf after he faced a barrage of hate crime reports under the SNP’s controversial new law. The force issued a “form of words” for call centre workers and officers to recite in
A 22-year-old French woman was found dead in an abandoned church in Italy over the weekend after allegedly looking for ghosts for a TikTok video, police said. The woman had told family members about her plans before her body was found drained
The Metropolitan Police had reports of honeytrap messages targeting Westminster last year – but did not warn MPs. Reports to Scotland Yard in October and November were passed on to House of Commons security staff, reports the Daily Mail. A decision however
A woman who was stabbed to death in a £4 million home in London has been named and pictured as police continue the search for her killer. A murder investigation was launched after police forced entry to a property in Stanhope Place,
Humza Yousaf has been urged to abandon “disastrous” new hate crime laws in Scotland after new figures showed a deluge of complaints in the first week. Some 7,152 reports were made online to Police Scotland following the controversial legislation taking effect on
Victims of sexual abuse and other crimes who have signed “gagging orders” will be able to breach them under a major post-Me Too reform. Justice Secretary Alex Chalk tabled amendments to his Victims and Prisoners Bill that would mean sexual abusers and
A jilted ex-boyfriend who assaulted his former partner and then drove his new Mercedes into her garden, blamed his ‘stupid f****** animal’ of a car for the incident. Anthony Tye, 35, was initially charged with attempted murder after his ex-partner and a
Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf’s brother-in-law has been arrested and charged with abduction and extortion. The allegations surround a case linked to a 36-year-old man who died after falling from a window in Dundee on January 10. Ramsay El-Nakla, the brother of
A husband who cut his wife’s body into more than 200 pieces and then paid a friend £50 to help him dump her remains in a river has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 19 years. Nicholas Metson, 28,
A police force is facing a furious backlash after a row over a potential hate crime posted to social media. An officer reportedly said “it won’t be moving forward as a crime” after questioning the woman’s ethnicity. Police Scotland became involved in