Tag: theft

Pensioners consider using crime to get ‘an easy life’

Court & Crime

Christine Lavelle - February 27, 2011

INCREASING numbers of elderly Scots being charged with criminal offences has been blamed on high poverty levels. The pensioner ‘crime wave’ was revealed in figures...

Police Probe Audi Car Fire

In Brief

Shaun Milne - January 19, 2011

Police in Tayside are investigating the theft of a silver Audi A3 car from the driveway of a house in Dundee’s Silver Button Yard. The...

Cruel “friend” steals dying pensioner’s Christmas cash

Scottish News

Peter Laing - January 13, 2011

A DYING, blind pensioner has hit out at “friends” who stole a cash Christmas present from his home. Police today confirmed they are investigating the...

Woman threatend and purse robbed

Local News

Clare Carswell - December 30, 2010

A WOMAN was robbed just minutes away from the HQ of Scotland’s second largest police force. The 26-year-old was threatened by a...

Man in court in connection with serious sexual assault in Edinburgh

Court & Crime

Christine Lavelle - November 30, 2010

AN 18-year-old man has appeared in court in connection with a serious sexual assault on a woman who was found dead at her home...

Police hunt two youths in connection with robbery and assault

Clare Carswell - October 25, 2010

By Clare Carswell DETECTIVES are hunting two youths following the assault and robbery of a 22 year-old man late on Thursday evening (October 21) in...

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