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At Hamilton Sheriff Court today, Lanarkshire Health Board was fined £24,000 for a breach of Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, which led to the serious illness of a hospital patient. Over the course of November 2008, the 64-year old female patient at Hartwoodhill Hospital became gravely unwell.
At Lanark Sheriff Court today, Andrew Mullen pled guilty to keeping five dogs for the purposes of animal fighting, contrary to the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006, section 23(1)(a). Mullen, from Uddingston, Lanarkshire, was also found to have 340 photographs on a laptop showing dogs fighting with foxes, badgers and other dogs.
The murder of Surjit Singh Chhokar in 1998 is being reviewed by the Crown Office. Strathclyde Police have now been instructed to carry out further investigation into his murder under the Double Jeopardy legislation introduced in November last year. The family of Mr. Chhokar were informed today of the Crown’s decision by the Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland QC and the Solicitor General for Scotland, Lesley Thomson QC, at a meeting in the Crown Office, Edinburgh.
A Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) will be held into the death of infant Declan Hainey. The Procurator Fiscal at Paisley will apply to the Sheriff Court for the holding of the Inquiry. Declan Hainey was last seen alive aged 15 months. His body was discovered in March 2010, when he would have been 23 months old, in a flat in Paisley. His mother, Kimberley Hainey, was found guilty and convicted of his murder on 15 December 2011 by a Jury at Glasgow High Court and sentenced to life imprisonment on12 January 2012.
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