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Two people suspected of killing Lerwick woman Tracey Walker on 30th July this year are to stand trial for murder. Ross MacDougall, 31, and Dawn Smith, 28, will go to trial on 14th April next year. Prosecutors claimed that 40-year-old Ms Walker suffered blunt force trauma “by means unknown”... Read more...
A serial offender from the isles Nathan Hilditch has failed in a bid to have his jail-term cut. Hilditch had been locked up for a string of crimes – including obstructing police and making almost 30 bogus 999 calls. The 22-year-old – who already had a lengthy list of convictions – had ea... Read more...
A Shetland resident who escaped justice for seven years following a rape attack was today jailed for five years after being snared by DNA. Cy Sullivan, 26, who worked as a commercial diver in the isles, raped his 42-year-old drunk victim in Greyfrairs Churchyard in Edinburgh in 27th November 2009... Read more...
An apprentice mechanic from Brae was jailed for three years today after being convicted of having under-age sex with two teenage girls. The High Court in Glasgow heard that 22-year-old Zai Vessey, of Havragord, already had a previous conviction for under-age sex and was on probation for that when... Read more...
A drink driver who killed a man after ignoring pleas to slow down has been locked up for six and a half years. John Pottinger, 21, of South Whiteness, was described as "pretty drunk" when he got behind the wheel of his Volkswagen car, having been at a disco in Burra. He later ploughed into ped... Read more...
A man who knocked down and killed a father as he walked home from a party has admitted causing death by dangerous driving. (more…) Read more...