Prison staff 'sacked from HMP Edinburgh for attacking inmate in cell'

A man has died after being found seriously injured at a Scots property.

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years in prison following his conviction in the Los Angeles rape trial that lasted five weeks. The disgraced movie mogul's sentencing was handed down Thursday in a Los Angeles courtroom, where the 70-year-old was convicted in December. The sentencing comes two months after the jury — comprised of eight men and four women — needed just over two weeks to deliberate. In the end, the jury found Weinstein guilty on three of the seven counts he faced.

JK Rowling has revealed her abusive ex-husband hid the manuscript for the first Harry Potter novel in a bid to stop her from leaving him. The author said Portuguese TV reporter Jorge Arantes kept the pages of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone like a "hostage" and she feared he would burn them.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis sidestepped several attempts from “Fox & Friends” to get him to announce a run for president during an appearance on the conservative cable news network on Monday. Gov. DeSantis, who is widely predicted to become a presidential candidate in 2024, was visiting Staten Island, New York, as part of a pro-police tour.“Are you recruiting officers to go from these liberal cities like New York, Chicago and Philadelphia down to Florida or is this one of those things people who might be running for president would do to go ahead and start to get the ball rolling?” “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy asked.DeSantis replied that it is “definitely the former,” noting that Florida has put a lot of money into police recruitment.

A transgender prisoner who has been locked up with women for six years says she fears she would not survive if she is moved to a men’s prison. Sophie Eastwood – who is serving life for murdering a male cellmate in prison in 2004 when she was still known as Daniel – has been held among female ­prisoners in Cornton Vale since 2017.

Lying fugitive Nicholas Rossi had his electric wheelchair confiscated in prison... for using it as a weapon. The American sex offender is in Edinburgh’s Saughton Prison awaiting extradition to the US over rape charges.

Prison life is already taking a toll on Todd Chrisley – at least when it comes to his looks!

Holly Jones Munich-based arthouse distribution company Prokino Filmverleih has locked German-language and Swiss rights for the unconventional Icelandic road trip film “Driving Mum” from production-distribution outfit Alief (“Matadero”). The project won the Grand Prix Prize for best film at the Tallinn Black Night Film Festival, earning additional accolades for its affecting score. It was also chosen as an Industry Select title at 2022’s Toronto Festival. The deal, brokered between Miguel Angel Govea, a partner at Alief, and Ira Von Gienanth, managing director of production, acquisitions & sales at Prokino, comes ahead of the feature’s European Film Market screenings in Berlin.

Unions have demanded action from the Scottish Government to halt an "exodus of nursing staff" after new figures showed a 13 per cent rise in the number of employees leaving the profession.

Prison bosses have claimed no women were put at risk by the decision to send a transgender rapist to Cornton Vale.

A Scots inmate who stabbed a man during a street rammy has died behind bars, the Scottish Prison Service has confirmed.

A man who vanished after boarding a train from from Falkirk may have travelled to Edinburgh, police say.

A pensioner has died after being struck by a bus on a major road in Edinburgh.

Paedophile Gary Glitter has been freed from prison after serving just half of his 16-year sentence for sex crimes. The disgraced glam rock singer - who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s - was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.

A man is saving hundreds of pounds a month after giving up living in a conventional house and moving into a tiny eco-home he built himself in a garden.

A crackdown on drugs being smuggled into Perth Prison was launched by police.

A lifer who murdered the brother of gangland boss Tam McGraw has been given another year behind bars after attacking guards with a razor blade.

One of Scotland’s most notorious gangsters was escorted from jail to give an “emotional” speech at his mum’s funeral.

The SNP justice secretary has denied that violent stalker Tiffany Scott was on the verge of being transferred to a women's jail. Keith Brown today defended the risk assessment process used by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) following an uproar over its handling of the cases of two transgender women.

A prison officer smuggled cocaine and other drugs into a maximum security jail after befriending a killer.