News about Andrew Shaw

ROBERT HARDMAN: There was no shortage of people wanting to join this party. In fact, just nine minutes after going online last month, all the tickets had gone for a night of rich comedy at one of Edinburgh's most fashionable nightclubs. The audience would be a very mixed bag, as it turned out. According to one organiser, they spanned 'radical separatist lesbians, libertarian males, geeky unwashed students and middle-aged Daily Mail readers'. They all had one thing in common, though. They all wanted to have a good laugh at one of the most absurd laws since Henry VIII's beard tax. And there is certainly plenty to laugh (or cry) about with regard to Scotland's new Hate Crime and Public Order Act. Indeed, over the last few days, it has united judges, police officers and pretty much the entire Scottish public in their mockery of a chaotic exercise in virtue-signalling by the country's ruling Scottish Nationalist/Green alliance. This is a law which makes it a 'hate' crime to abuse a man in a dress but not a woman wearing the very same dress. For, while it offers specific protections for those who are trans-gender, non-binary or simply cross-dressing, it does not offer similar protections for women.

Gerald Tubby (left), 58, was working at Ikea when he was discovered with stacks of drugs and cash at his house (bottom right). The lenient sentence had stunned neighbors who flocked to the father-of-one's house in Newton Flotman, near Norwich, to score medications. The judge "let him off," Neighbour Roger Howell (top right) said.

Two women were convicted of kidnapping a woman with learning difficulties and then exposing her to a "terrible and horrific assault," after which they searched the internet for ways to kill her and dispose of her body. Elisha Robinson (left) and Jodie Colvin (right), along with a teenage boy who cannot be identified, conspired together to kidnap the victim and transfer her to a bungalow. A court heard that the 21-year-old woman was repeatedly sexually assaulted, coerced to eat excrement, and poured bleach and boiling water over her near Norwich, Norfolk. The court heard that although the teen didn't intentionally hurt the victim, the woman was urged to cause as much pain as possible.' Judge Andrew Shaw referred to the six-hour ordeal as a "terrible, terrifying, and horrific assault." Since the attack, the extremely vulnerable victim, who is learning difficulties, was suffering serious physical and mental traumas, according to him.

Researchers from the University of Exeter have developed a device that can detect tiny molecules in blood to detect health conditions and diseases.

BEWARNING CONTENT CONTENT: Dami Tobi Ayan (right) pushed him to the ground and dragging him by the arms before slapping him with an open hand. On Wednesday, Ayan (left) was sentenced to nine months in prison for failing to provide ill care or wilful neglect of a person with no mental capacity at a later hearing. Judge Andrew Shaw found the defendant had demonstrated a "complete lack of compassion and respect" in his ward's care, who was "completely dependent on his carers for everything."

After he refused to appear in the courtroom or sentence, a judge accused a paedophile who sexually assaulted a sleeping child and plummeting her with alcohol of attempting to conceal his'shame'. Malcolm Appleby (left) laced the 12-year-old girl's juice with rum and whisky before molesting her on a camping trip. If she pursued a lawsuit against him, the 39-year-old career criminal told her she would get into 'all get into trouble' if she pursued a lawsuit and told her that it was 'all a dream.' Following a trial in his absence earlier this year, he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13 and intimidating a witness. Judge Andrew Shaw dismissed Malcolm Appleby's deliberate attempts to compel this trial to exclude himself from it, despite the fact that he has no excuse to it.'

After his £220,000 was removed - £170,000 in cash - from his account, a Mold Crown Court heard Gerald Corrigan (left), 74, had "virtually nothing" at the time of his death. Wyn Lewis (right), 51, of Llanfair-yn-Neubwll, North Wales, was charged with eleven counts of fraud and a single count of attempting to pervert justice. Mr Corrigan was fatally shot with a crossbow outside his house in a rural area of Anglesey in April 2019. The court heard that during forensic inquiries with his partner Marie Bailey, police learned they may have been victims of a scam.