13 h. ago Woman convicted for 'reckless damage' at 'nationally important' Ayrshire site

Dagmara Lesiow Lasczcewski was found guilty of three charges of causing reckless damage to two SSSIs at Paisley Sheriff Court on 28 July 2025.

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14 h. ago Woman convicted for biting off rapist's tongue while he attacked her is acquitted 61 years later

Choi Mal-ja was sentenced to 10 months in prison suspended for two years after taking off 1.5 cm (0.59in) of her attacker's tongue in an attempt to escape when she was 18-years-old.

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35 h. ago Mineral collector convicted of damaging important Galloway site by breaking rocks with hammer

In the first conviction of its kind in Scotland, Dagmara Lesiow Lasczcewski was found guilty of three charges of causing reckless damage to sites of special scientific interest.

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4 d. ago Woman who murdered family lunch guests by poisoning beef wellington with mushrooms jailed for life

Erin Patterson’s non-parole period of 33 years is the longest ever for a woman convicted of murder in Victoria, Australia

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4 d. ago Erin Patterson jailed for life for poisoning relatives with death cap mushrooms

Patterson's non-parole period of 33 years is the longest ever for a woman convicted of murder in Victoria

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7 d. ago Minnesota man freed after 27 years in prison for murder he did not commit

Bryan Hooper’s first-degree murder conviction vacated after woman confessed to 1998 killing of Ann PrazniakA Minnesota man wrongly convicted of murder who spent nearly three decades in prison after being falsely implicated by a woman who has since confessed to the crime has been released.State district court judge Marta Chou had vacated Bryan Hooper Sr’s first-degree murder conviction the day before. He was released on Thursday morning from Stillwater correctional facility, a Great North Innocence Project spokesperson said. Continue reading...

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1 week ago South Ayrshire Young Leader plays with National Guiding and Scouting Orchestra

Evelyn Butler represented Ayrshire South County at this year's event

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2 w. ago Ayrshire College to feature in national aerospace documentary

Ayrshire College will introduce the national documentary highlighting their role in developing the future workforce for Scotland’s aerospace sector.

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2 w. ago 'Homeless' Londoner convicted over unpaid TV licence while caring for disabled woman

The case was dealt with under the notorious Single Justice Procedure

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3 w. ago Florida man convicted of killing a woman abducted from an insurance office is set to be executed

A man convicted of kidnapping a woman from an insurance office in the early 1980s and killing her is set for execution in Florida

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4 w. ago Ayrshire adolescent mental health facility to open in January

Foxgrove - the National Secure Adolescent Inpatient Service - at Ayrshire Central Hospital in Irvine is due to become fully operational in January.

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last month Former national watersports centre in Ayrshire to go under the hammer

The National Watersports Centre on Cumbrae is set to be sold at auction with a guide price of £275,000 five years after it closed.

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