A "depraved" former prison officer who admitted raping a young girl in the north-east of Scotland and sexually assaulting ...

Paedophile Ryan Yates attacked the 60-year-old woman in Westfield Park, Aberdeen, later telling officers he was trying to ...

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A FORMER Scots prison officer who admitted raping and sexually assaulting two young girls has been jailed. Russell Maitland, ...

Russell Maitland denied being attracted to children and instead claimed he raped and sexually abused one girl and sexually ...

A former officer who was taken hostage in Peterhead Prison during a siege in 1987 has died aged 93. Jackie Stuart - then aged 57 - was held for five days when 50 inmates took control of a hall in ...

Photographs taken during one of Scotland's most notorious prison riots are going on public display for the first time. Thirty years ago this week, 50 inmates took control of D-hall at Peterhead ...

David Wilson’s Crime Files investigates the case of prisoner William Gordon who – in 1925 – was released from the remote Peterhead prison with something carefully concealed in his mouth ...

"We've seen the success of Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin and Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast and there's now the successful Peterhead Prison Museum in the north east of Scotland.