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Here’s what has been making the news across the country on Thursday.
One of Scotland’s most up and coming businessmen has been barred from being a director after dodging tax in a shady scheme.
The three-and-a-half year disqualification of jet-setting Ryan Bowman, 37, will send shockwaves among legions of directors who have used the dodgy “ Atherton scheme ” to wind up companies and avoid paying their debts to creditors.
Bowman had been heralded as a major new force on the Scots pub and restaurant scene with the Bow Hospitality Group, which he founded in 2016.
View 3 ImagesRyan Bowman
He boasts of the enterprise being “Scotland’s premier hospitality group”, owning 12 pubs and restaurants in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and several towns in the central belt.
READ MORE: Jet-setting pub boss banned for debt dodging scheme as creditors left out of pocket
A man who hid a secret cache of foreign guns and ammunition at a marina in Dumbarton has been jailed.
Robert Weir, 56, stored the weapons at a rented storage unit at Sandpoint Marina.
Firearms officers raided the unit in March 2025 and discovered a shortened loaded Russian-made shotgun and a Japanese shotgun which was also loaded, and two handguns with ammunition.
Weir was caged for seven years and six months at the High Court in Glasgow after admitting multiple firearms offences.
READ MORE: Gun nut jailed after secret stash of foreign shotguns found in storage unit at marina
A thug who killed a popular amateur footballer with a single punch has been jailed for seven years. Leon Beagan, 29, punched Andrew Lees outside Renfrew Leisure Centre on November 5, 2023.
The 27 year-old – known as Panda – suffered a fatal rupture of an artery in his neck and sadly passed away in hospital. Beagan was today sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow having earlier been convicted of a charge of culpable homicide.
Judge Douglas Brown told the killer the death was “a tragedy” and that it had left Mr Lees’ grieving mother “completely shattered”.
READ MORE: One-punch killer jailed after death of amateur footballer
Five more people including a teenage boy have been arrested in connection with disorder among Rangers and Celtic fans at Ibrox Stadium. Dramatic scenes broke out following the Scottish Cup quarter-final on Sunday, March 8.
Flares were seen being fired into the midst of fans while supporters, police officers, and stadium workers came under attack. A steward was seen being carried from the pitch and a number of people were pictured receiving medical treatment.
View 3 ImagesPolice clash with Rangers fans as they storm the pitch (Image: SNS Group)
Following the match, Celtic striker Tomáš Čvančara, who scored the winning penalty for his side, was interviewed for TV wearing a blood-stained shirt. He had been photographed intervening in an incident on the field.
READ MORE: Teen boy among further Old Firm arrests after fan violence at Scottish Cup match
The devastated mum of a man stabbed to death in a Paisley flat has blasted his killer’s lawyers over claims there was a miscarriage of justice.
On June 24 last year, Cameron Woods and Stacey Balfour, then aged 27 and 24, were sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow over the slaying of Robert Fisher. The 26-year-old was killed in a brutal knife attack at flats in Maxwellton Street in July 2023.
Woods was convicted of murder while ex-girlfriend Balfour was initially found guilty of culpable homicide. However, trial judge Lady Hood ruled the verdict against Balfour was legally incompetent and sent the jury back out to reconsider its decision before she too was convicted of murder.
READ MORE: ‘Liar!’ Mum blast son’s killer over claims she was wrongfully found guilty of murder
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