29 January – Nat Fraser is found guilty of murdering his wife,
Arlene, who went missing almost five years earlier, and is sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation to serve a minimum of 25 years behind bars.[1]
24 November – The high court in
Glasgow imposes a minimum sentence of 27 years for Al Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Libyan national convicted of bombing
Pan Am Flight 103 over
Lockerbie in 1988.