A woman and teenage girl who assaulted a 53-year-old man before pouring petrol over him and setting him alight have been convicted of attempted murder. Isabella Smith, 50, and the 14-year-old girl, who cannot be named, carried out the attack on Eric Little at his home in Glasgow in January last year. At the High Court in Glasgow, sentence on ...
To Glasgow knife carriers, going down for a long stretch became known as "copping a Carmont". Lord Carmont, in May 1954, told the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow he thought the city's record of crimes of violence was improving. Mr Gordon said today's challenge is a bigger one than the 50s razor gangs.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The use of hearsay testimony to convict former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson in the death of his third wife was proper, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday in upholding the conviction. The high court, in a unanimous decision , found that hearsay testimony from Peterson's dead third wife and missing fourth wife did not violate
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Current cases. Cases only appear here a few weeks before the appeal is due to be heard by the Court. Lists of cases seeking permission to appeal to the Court appear on the monthly lists published on our Permission to appeal page, once such an application is determined.. The abbreviations 'FC' and 'AP' stand for 'Funded Client' and 'Assisted Person' respectively.
