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Lucy Farrell

Thursday's headlines: Paedophile teacher faces jail and Scots Gangster snapped with Oasis star

Good evening and welcome to today's Daily Record headline briefing.

The rundown keeps you up to date with the latest news from Scotland and beyond.

Here is everything you need to know to keep up to date.

'Master of deceit' Paedophile teacher who molested two pupils at Scots primary school facing jail

A teacher who molested two schoolboys in a campaign of twisted sexual abuse is facing jail.

Carol Ann White, 39, abused both youngsters while employed in two different Lanarkshire primary schools.

A police investigation was launched when it was discovered she had been texting a 12-year-old boy during the first Covid-19 lockdown.

Phones belonging to the pair were analysed and a total of 1,185 messages had been exchanged over a three-week period.

White asked him to touch himself intimately on FaceTime, sent revealing photos of herself and sent one photo captioned 'Cockblock of the year goes to Covid-19'.

Scots Ryanair passenger raging as rude woman leans over her to film out window

The woman continuously reached across to film out the window during the duration of the flight (Supplied)

A Scots woman on a Ryanair plane was left fuming after a rude passenger leaned over her to film out of the window throughout the flight.

Danielle McLean was flying from Edinburgh to Gdańsk in Poland on Tuesday, and had been seated in the window seat when the stranger first reached over her lap with her mobile phone in hand.

The 34-year-old said she was minding her own business but was left baffled as the woman continued to stretch across her and take videos from the window.

Danielle, who is a frequent flyer and regularly jets across Europe said she had never seen anything quite like it - and the unknown passenger didn't attempt to speak to her.

Scots gangster Robert Kelbie poses for selfies with Noel Gallagher at Tyson Fury title fight

Gangster Robert Kelbie posed for selfies with Oasis legend Noel Gallagher at Saturday’s world title fight at Wembley Stadium.

Kelbie, 38, was hanging out at the boxing extravaganza where pal Tyson Fury knocked out Dillian Whyte to defend his heavyweight crown.

The convicted fraudster was pictured twice with music superstar Gallagher, 54, at the sold-out event.

In one photo in the main arena, Kelbie is wearing a ‘ringside journalist’ pass around his neck while the second appeared to be taken backstage.

Gallagher, who fronts the High Flying Birds, was among 94,000 fans who watched Fury, 33, record a sixth-round victory.

Scots rapist who brutally murdered fiancée by stamping on her head caged for life

Diane Nichol was brutally murdered by her fiancé, Rory O’Connor (Facebook)

A convicted rapist who murdered his bride to be by repeatedly kicking, stamping and striking her head against a floor has been jailed for life.

Rory O’Connor, 54, subjected his partner Diane Nichol, 57, to a “savage” assault at her house in Trevelyan Terrace in Hawick, Borders, on August 9, 2021.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard how O’Connor had been heard shouting at Diane on the day before she died. A witness heard O’Connor tell her: “You’re useless, you don’t clean, you don’t make my lunch, you better make it tomorrow.”

The following day, a neighbour of Diane heard banging and shouting coming from her flat.

Prosecutor Craig Murray told the court: “A downstairs neighbour heard the accused’s raised voice and banging noises all day on August 9 2021. The neighbour could not hear the deceased’s voice.

Racist teenager made chilling murder threats while swinging axe in Scots housing estate

Mitchell Webster at Perth Sheriff Court (Perthshire Picture Agency)

A teenager made chilling murder threats as he walked around a housing estate swinging an axe around his head.

When he was eventually apprehended by police, Mitchell Webster said: "It wasn't an axe - it was a machete. Black lives don't matter."

Fiscal depute Bill Kermode told Perth Sheriff Court: "Witnesses saw the accused swinging about what they initially thought was a white pole.

"The accused walked towards them then he ran away. They called police. They then saw him at the shops.

"The accused was heard to say 'I've not come all this way for nothing. I'm going to murder someone.' The witnesses followed the accused at a distance.

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