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

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 ...

A former senior police officer has warned of a violent new power struggle following the arrest in Dubai of crime bosses Ross ...

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 ...

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

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

Scottish Justice Secretary Angela Constance spoke out ahead of ‘landmark’ legislation to abolish the controversial verdict ...

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

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 ...