Criminal Record has brought together a round-up of today’s biggest crime stories.
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Here’s what has been making the news across the country on Saturday.
Three men admit roles in death of Canadian restaurant owner
Three men extradited from Scotland to Canada have admitted their roles in the death of a restaurant owner who confronted customers over an unpaid bill.
Dad-of-one Sharif Rahman, 44, died a week after suffering a fatal head injury during an altercation outside The Curry House restaurant in Owen Sound, Ontario, in August 2023.
Robert Evans Jr, 25, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at the Ontario Court of Justice on Friday, while his father, Robert Busby Evans, 49, and uncle, Barry Evans, 56, admitted being accessories after the fact.
The three men were arrested in Scotland on international warrants before agreeing to be extradited to Canada in December last year.
FULL STORY: Three men extradited from Scotland admit roles in Canadian restaurant owner’s death
Woman seriously injured after being struck by car near Fife church
A woman has been left seriously injured after she was struck by a car near a church in Fife.
The 55-year-old pedestrian was taken to hospital following the collision on the B9037 Main Street in Torryburn, near Dunfermline, at around 4.10pm on Friday.
The crash involved a blue Suzuki Vitara and happened close to Torryburn Parish Church. Police Scotland said the woman remains in a serious condition and officers are continuing efforts to trace the occupants of the vehicle.
FULL STORY: Woman seriously injured in hit and run outside Fife church as cops hunt driver
Fallout from Murrell embezzlement conviction continues
Former Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf says he thought Nicola Sturgeon looked “quite a broken women” in the wake of her ex-husband Peter Murrell admitting to embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP.
In an interview with the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, Ms Sturgeon said her ex-husband has never explained to her why he took party funds as she spoke of the “trauma” she has gone through.
Murrell pleaded guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh last week to embezzling the sum from the SNP between 2010 and 2022.
Speaking on BBC Newsnight, Mr Yousaf was asked whether he believed Ms Sturgeon’s version of events that she was unaware of her then-husband’s actions.
He said: “I believe Nicola because I know the person and I believe her to be a person of great integrity. In that Laura Kuenssberg interview, I thought I saw quite a broken woman. I thought I saw somebody who was really suffering as a result of what’s happened in a huge betrayal.
“I certainly am in that percentage that believe her, but I can understand people’s scepticism. I mean, I’m not surprised by it.”
FULL STORY: Yousaf says Sturgeon looked ‘quite a broken woman’ discussing Murrell confession
Worst criminals jailed in Scotland this week
Two teenage boys have been found guilty of murdering 16-year-old Kayden Moy at Irvine beach. Jay Stewart, 18, and a 15-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, fatally stabbed Kayden at the Ayrshire beauty spot on May 17 last year.
A third teenager, 18-year-old Cole Turley, previously pleaded guilty to the murder before the trial started at the High Court in Glasgow. They will be sentenced next month.
A 17-year-old who stabbed a man to death with a ‘rambo knife’ while on bail for a slashing, has been jailed for life. The killer who cannot be named for legal reasons chased and killed John McNab, 22, in an unprovoked attack on Great Junction Street in Leith, Edinburgh, on September 2 last year.
He was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 17 years at the High Court in Dundee.
Crime gang posted £2.2m of drugs across UK
Iain Potter, Jack Wright and Ross Fathi oversaw an industrial‑scale distribution hub which exploited the Royal Mail system to send thousands of drug parcels to customers across the UK.
Inside the warehouse, officers found a professionally organised operation equipped with vacuum‑sealing machines, packaging stations, label printers and stacks of Royal Mail bags prepared for dispatch. A raid uncovered a large catalogue of illegal substances, including cocaine, MDMA, ketamine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, cannabis resin and THC edibles.
The criminal trio had sent 1,724 parcels between February and April 2025, Royal Mail records show, each weighing between 0.1kg and 10kg. At least 19kg of cocaine had been delivered in the operation, police estimate, among drugs worth a total of £2.2m. Encrypted mobile phones and £13,000 in cash were also seized.
Potter, 45, of Sefton Drive, Liverpool, and Wright, 30, of Westgate Lane, Wakefield, were each handed 11 years and four months in prison after admitting conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs. Fathi, 46, of Wingfield Drive, Wilmslow, received a six‑year sentence for his role in the operation, having been convicted of the same offences.
FULL STORY: Crime gang jailed after using Royal Mail to post £2.2m of drugs across UK
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