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Outrage as top Scots lawyer given 'slap on wrist' for sending filthy messages about rape charity boss

Brian McConnachie, KC, boasted he would have sex with Sandy Brindley "just to have something over her”.

Daily Record

Top Scots lawyer faces ban for 'demeaning' texts about sex with rape charity boss

Brian McConnachie, KC, boasted he would have sex with Sandy Brindley “just to have something over her”.

Daily Record

Glasgow MP Margaret Ferrier who broke covid travel rules sentenced to 270 hours community service

Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP Margaret Ferrier tested positive for Covid-19 but travelled between Glasgow and London. She has now been sentenced to 270 hours of community service.

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Lanarkshire COVID rule break MP given community service as she walks free from court

Margaret Ferrier admitted breaking coronavirus lockdown rules in September 2020

Daily Record

Top Scots QC faces second probe over sex text accusations

The whistleblower who exposed Brian McConnachie orginally lodged an appeal because he only recieved a "slap on the wrists."

Daily Record

Top Scots QC who said he'd 's***' head of rape charity given written ticking off by watchdog

The Faculty of Advocates’ complaints committee said Brian McConnachie had already experienced “considerable embarrassment” through the scandal and “suffered professionally and personally”.

Daily Record

Woman who reported QC for sexts about head of Rape Crisis Scotland 'appalled' by disciplinary procedure

EXCLUSIVE: The female complainant last night said she felt let down by the process after acting as a whistleblower over the texts.

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Sheku Bayoh death had significant impact on police involved, inquiry told

Counsel representing the officers have given their opening statements at the public inquiry into his death.

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Scotland's legal watchdog urged to 'drag itself out of the dark ages' as MSP blasts 'blatant misogyny'

Monica Lennon MSP said the Faculty of Advocates should have condemned the “blatant misogyny and sexism” of his messages about Sandy Brindley, the head of Rape Crisis Scotland.

Daily Record

Sickening discrimination is dressed up as lads' banter - and it's shameful

It wasn’t just the sexist warblings of Bill Copeland, a former QC turned after-dinner speaker, which offended women at the SFWA awards, but the alleged homophobic and racist references too.

Daily Record

Man to stand trial accused of murdering Bennylyn Burke and her daughter in Dundee

Andrew Innes allegedly killed the 25-year-old and her child Jellica Burke at a house on Troon Avenue in Dundee between February 20 and March 5 2021.

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