A MAN is to stand trial later this year on an allegation that he carried out an assault and robbery at a Greenock shop last year while armed with knives. Jason McLean, 20, is charged with raiding ...

Born Peter Laing, he was charged with assaulting a female officer at HMP Edinburgh by forcibly pushing ... and is a danger to all the women in Polmont - whether they are guards or inmates.

The families of two young inmates who died at Polmont have called for the prison service to be stripped of crown immunity following an inquiry. The grieving relatives of Katie Allan, 21, and ...

Under the law, the Crown, which includes the Scottish Prison Service, cannot be held criminally responsible for deaths in custody. The Scottish government said it has pursued a change in the law, but ...

William Brown and Katie Allan took their own lives at Polmont Young Offenders Institution ... being restrained by up to 17 prison officers at HMP Edinburgh in 2010. In Scotland, Crown immunity ...

He joined the service in May 1998 at HMP Barlinnie as an operations officer, the entry level prison officer job and later worked as a physical education instructor at Polmont, before moving in the ...

“Green caused harm to a female officer and is a danger to all the women in Polmont - whether they are ... but was transferred within weeks to HMP Edinburgh amid claims of liaisons with other ...

Prison bosses are under increasing pressure to remove male-born trans prisoners from the female estate after the watershed ...

Women are being sent to prison after missing court appearances because they cannot get child care, The Herald has found as we investigate the ...

Ms Medhurst made the comment during a meeting with the families of Katie Allan and William Brown, also known as William Lindsay, who both died by suicide at Polmont ... at HMP Edinburgh in 2010.