A mother who killed her baby daughter by burning her with a hairdryer has been jailed for six years.
Courtney Gartshore, 28, used the appliance to subject three-month-old Dahlia-Rose to "significant and sustained heat" on her head and body.
Gartshore was convicted of culpable homicide - the closest equivalent to manslaughter in Scots Law - following a trial at the High Court in Aberdeen in July.
A woman accused of engaging in sex acts with an XL Bully dog has failed to appear in court.
Stephanie Watson, of Lanark, faces allegations she had an 'unnatural connection' with a dog at an address in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, between June and December 2024.
It is claimed she committed the alleged offence while on four separate bail orders.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Northampton has appeared in court over allegations he raped a teenage girl after they went on a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
David Oakley, 70, is accused of twice having sexual intercourse with the girl, who was 15 at the time, in the early 2000s.
Oakley, who was then in his mid-40s and working as a Catholic priest, was charged in June with two counts of rape of a girl under the age of 16, following an investigation by Staffordshire Police’s Rape and Serious Sexual Offences team.
