Four of the group: Owens, Lannery, Brannan and Williams, were found guilty of attempting to murder a child by pushing her into a microwave and trapping her in other places. Sentencing was delayed ...

From left to right: Iain Owens, Elaine Lannery, Lesley Williams, Barry Watson, Scott Forbes, Paul Brannan, Marianne Gallagher and John Clark. Gallagher was convicted of assault but cleared of ...

Three victims under the age of 13 were subjected to sexual abuse and violence in a Glasgow drug den dubbed "the beastie house ...

During a two-month trial, defence lawyers had argued the children may not have been telling the truth, but prosecutors said it would be "off the scale devious" to make up crimes of the "most monstrous ...

From left to right - Top: Iain Owens, Elaine Lannery, Lesley Williams, Barry Watson. Bottom: Scott Forbes, Paul Brannan, John Clark (James Chapelard for The Independent) For free real time ...

The victims were abused over a seven-year period in a Glasgow drug den which became known as "the beastie house".

Owens was given 20 years, Elaine Lannery 17, Lesley Williams 14, Paul Brannan 15, Scott Forbes eight, Barry Watson nine years and six months and John Clark 10 years. The seven sickos were ...

Seven people convicted of being part of a child abuse ring which plunged to “the depths of human depravity” were sentenced to lifelong restriction orders and warned they may never be released.

Residents left ‘sick to their stomach’ after paedophile ring exposed in case which ‘plunges to the depths of human depravity’, Amy-Clare-Martin reports ...