Firecrest Films makes Murder Case and Murder Trial for BBC Scotland. The award-winning true crime documentaries attract big audiences in ...

A TOP cop says the challenges of tackling drug lords based abroad are to blame for a drop in drug detection rates. DCC Jane Connors told a watchdog that officers involved in Operation Portaledge ...

Former Director General of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, Graeme Pearson, believes other crime family ...

A Tory amendment which would have required research into child sexual abuse and exploitation to be carried out was voted down ...

Referred to as the “bastard verdict” by Sir Walter Scott as far back as the 1820s, the not proven verdict is currently used ...

Authors and readers are set to flock to Stirling this weekend to share their love of the genre, from tense psychological ...

John Swinney has been accused of "effectively legalising” shoplifting in Scotland amid a huge rise in retail crime. Scottish ...

Hat Trick International (HTI), the UK-based factual and scripted distributor, is launching three true-crime documentary ...

MSPs have voted to abolish Scotland's controversial not proven verdict. The Scottish government's flagship Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill was passed on Wednesday following a ...

Shoplifting in Scotland has become "effectively legalised" as a result of SNP cuts to the police and justice system, MSPs ...