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making a bid for freedom or another attack in Scotland's gangland war - this is the place where you'll get the low-down. A man has died and two others have been seriously injured following a two-vehicle crash on the A709 in Dumfries and Galloway.
The collision happened at around 7.35pm on Saturday, June 6, on the Dumfries to Lockerbie road near Lochfield, Lochmaben, and involved a black Vauxhall Vectra and a white Citroen Dispatch. Emergency services raced to the scene and three people were taken to hospital. The driver of the Vauxhall, a 50-year-old man, died a short time later despite medical efforts.
Disgraced former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell sold a holiday villa in Portugal months after he was granted legal aid to help fund his defence in the criminal case that led to his guilty plea for embezzlement. According to reports, the Algarve property was sold in October last year, around six months after his legal aid application was approved.
Murrell, who admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP and faces sentencing later this month, had some of his assets frozen as part of the long-running Operation Branchform investigation. However, the Portuguese villa, which overlooked Nossa Senhora da Rocha beach and was jointly owned with family members and friends, was not included among the frozen assets.
Police Scotland has been singled out by the National Crime Agency as the UK force it gives most support and intelligence to on criminal network activity in Spain. Collaborations in the hunt for fugitives and crime networks operating in the Spanish hotspot have led to “successful joint operations”, a report says. The Costa del Sol – dubbed the “Costa del Crime” – has long been a bolthole for some of Scotland’s most wanted villains.
The NCA – known as Britain’s FBI – has revealed in recent months its international liaison officers helped Scottish police to track fugitives, dismantle criminal networks and shut down safe havens used by Scots gangsters hiding out. During major joint operations – such as the recent takedown of the notorious Lyons crime clan – Scots cops were deployed in Spain to coordinate raids, share encrypted data and execute international arrest warrants.
Spanish police said in April they dismantled a drugs gang linked to the Lyons family, after a three-year probe with the force. It comes after it emerged that one of the 16-year-old’s killers has previously walked free from court despite being caught carrying a machete.were introduced to ensure even first-time offenders found in possession of a knife would appear before a jury in the sheriff court and almost certainly face jail.
The approach, combined with education programmes through the Violence Reduction Unit, resulted in significant decreases in stabbing and was lauded a huge success.has found that in recent years the strategy has been abandoned in the face of overcrowded prisons and criminal justice budget cuts. Since 2022 only a third of knife possession charges and less than a fifth of offensive weapons charges have been handled by senior courts.
Thousands of cases were dropped, diverted from prosecution or handled in low-level courts with more lenient sentences. Scottish Labour justice spokesperson Pauline McNeill: “If the Scottish Government has dropped their zero-tolerance approach then they have serious questions to answer. This rise has happened on their watch and they must take responsibility for their role in it.
“Young people and their families are paying the ultimate price for the SNP’s failure in our justice system and it cannot continue. ”ENJOYED THIS STORY?
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