All news on the topic: Police Scotland

Austin Riley, aged 15 months, was crying hysterically, thrashing around and frantically pulling at his onesie when his mum collected him from Firtrees Nursery in Motherwell

A cordon is in place on Broomhill Drive, between Dumbarton Road and Broomhill Avenue in Glasgow, and police have advised avoiding the area while nearby homes are evacuated 'as a precaution'

Alan Lawson, 36, was found with serious injuries at his home in Saltcoats, Ayshire, before he died in hospital - with a man allegedly confessing to his torture on Snapchat

Elizabeth Bell, 11, was hit by a lorry on the B6105 near East Gordon in the Scottish Borders at around 8.05am on January 31 - with police appealing for information

Alan Lawson, 36, died in hospital after being brutally assaulted while being held hostage - with the attack reportedly shared on Snapchat as Police Scotland have launched a murder probe

Alan Lawson was brutally assaulted and then left for dead at his home in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, on Sunday, it is believed - and died of his injuries in hospital two days later

Greig 'Stodge' Stoddart's family suffered an agonising three-week ordeal over Christmas, during which they hit out as a lack of resources delayed Police Scotland's search effort

Samuel McCarte, 14, was punched several times in the face before being kicked in the head in a vicious brawl which broke out after an amateur football match in Coatbridge, Scotland

Robert Krawczyk sustained severe injuries after the attack in an Edinburgh park and now feels scared to leave the house - he believes the assault was racially motivated

Police Scotland said a woman was arrested and charged in connection with a driving offence following a road crash during a pro-Palestine protest in Edinburgh

Alison McLaughlin, 53, and her husband Neil, 57, were found dead at their home in Scotland on January 5. Police said the couple died in an apparent "murder-suicide"

Neil and Alison McLaughlin were discovered by officers in Greenock, Inverclyde, and Police Scotland tonight said both deaths are currently being treated as unexplained

An 18-year-old woman collapsed at SWG3 nightclub in Glasgow during a New Year's Day Teletech rave in a suspected ecstasy overdose - just months after two men, also both 18, died in August

Two people have been arrested over the murder of Edinburgh gangster Marc Webley after he was gunned down in an alleged targeted hit outside a pub on New Year's Eve

Police Scotland said the 88-year-old pedestrian was walking his dog along a busy road in Loanhead, Midlothian, when he was hit by a car and tragically died four days later in hospital in Edinburgh

One Brit was trying to take a 'quiet Saturday morning walk' along the beach, not far from his Edinburgh house, when he came across officers detonating a historical explosive

Five men, aged between 69 and 90, have been charged in connection with alleged historic abuse incidents at Edinburgh Academy, where BBC presenter Nicky Campbell was a pupil

Craig Hodgkins, a former constable in Edinburgh, hid behind a cloak of respectability in public during the eight years in which he abused his child, Rhanna Latham

The explosion on the residential street in Edinburgh completely destroyed the house and killed 84-year-old Jim Smith, as the Health and Safety Executive has now confirmed the cause

People from Edinburgh rallied together to help a family that 'lost everything' in a suspected gas explosion which destroyed their home and killed an 84-year-old man

A man aged 84 died and two people were rescued after an explosion in Edinburgh on Friday night with pictures showing the two-storey house almost entirely destroyed

David Hyslop, 54, was stopped on the A701 at Dumfries in Scotland during December of last year as police urge people to defrost their vehicles properly before driving

Emergency services dashed to the crash outside Queen of the South stadium Palmerston Park, in Dumfries, Scotland after the side played Dundee United in the Scottish Cup

Liam Hughes, 18, raped three girls in Grangemouth, Falkirk and Stirlingshire during his campaign of abuse between 2020 and 2022

Milly Main died in 2017 after she contracted an infection at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital with Scotland's biggest health board now reportedly being considered a formal suspect