All news by author: Mark McGivern

Iain Packer was brought to justice this week some 19 years after murdering Emma Caldwell and, although Police Scotland apologised for their handling of the case, fury still remains

Reverend Chris Demetriou told worshippers a wife “should submit to her husband’s leadership” because “that’s the Lord’s pattern for us” - while campaigners liked the teachings to The Handmaid's Tale

James Montague, 58, from Motherwell, who is blind and suffers from stage six kidney failure, has been given just six months to live but faces an eviction order over a tenancy wrangle

Filipino authorities paraded fighter-turned-actor Derek “Decca” Heggie on TV while announcing he would be booted out of the country

Residents near Scotland's newest women's prison, HMP Stirling, are housed just metres from inmates and have claimed their peace and quiet has been ruined by swearing and screaming from those behind bars

Linda McVean, who lost her boy Frankie in May, bought the street Valium pills for £10 before shaming the dealer by telling him “these are the same pills that killed my son”

A heartbroken mother is demanding an inquiry into an explosion in overdoses of deaths at the notorious Queens Park Hotel in Glasgow, where three people died of suspected overdoses in the past month

Paul McFadyen and Laura McGlinn wreaked havoc on a quiet street in Paisley, Renfrewshire, gathered CCTV surveillance illegally and refused to reposition the cameras

The transfer of Tiffany Scott - formerly known as Andrew Burns - from HMP Low Moss, near Glasgow, to a women’s prison was blocked after plans by Scottish Prison Service became known

Sophie Eastwood, who was named Daniel at the time of their sentencing, is serving a life term at Polmont prison in Brightons, Scotland for using shoelaces to strangle a cell-mate to death in 2004

Fiona McVey was taken to hospital by ambulance after an infection sparked an irregular heartbeat, and was astonished when a paramedic noted her medical file was was marked 'Do Not Resuscitate'

Bethany Haines, whose father David was beheaded in Syria, has had to seek reassurance from US justice sources that IS 'Beatle' Alexanda Kotey was still detained somewhere in America.