The Alesha MacPhail murder trial has been told the six-year-old schoolgirl was smothered and suffered “catastrophic” injuries to her genital area. Pathologist John Williams said the youngster suffered more severe
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A woman blamed by a murder accused for killing a six-year-old girl and “planting” his DNA on the child’s body has told a court she had nothing to do with
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Domestic abuse victims who work for a Scottish council will get up to 10 days paid “safe leave” after councillors approved the groundbreaking policy. Employees of South Ayrshire Council (pictured)
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Tributes have been paid to the “candour and courage” of witnesses who have given evidence of abuse they suffered while in residential childcare. The comments came from lawyers for Quarriers,
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The family of murdered Alesha MacPhail told a trial of the frantic search for the six-year-old when they realised she was missing from her bed. Schoolgirl Alesha was spending the
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The father of murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail sold cannabis to the teenager accused of killing her, a court has heard. Robert MacPhail, 26, told the High Court in Glasgow he
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MSPs have launched a probe into healthcare facilities across Scotland following the deaths of two patients who contracted an infection connected to pigeon droppings at a hospital. A 10-year-old boy
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Children lived in fear due to the “widespread abuse” of potentially thousands of boys and girls in care homes, an inquiry into child abuse has been told. Decades of abuse
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A teenage boy accused of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl on the Isle of Bute blames a woman for the crime. The body of Alesha MacPhail was discovered in
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Medics in Scotland’s biggest cities have treated victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) on more than 230 occasions over the last two years, according to newly-uncovered figures. The statistics were
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