Officers did no wrong in death case

An independent investigation has found that police officers acted appropriately in their dealings with a man who was later found dead in his flat.

At about 12.30am on July 18, 2020, police were called after a 34-year-old man was found lying in the streets of a town in the Northern Isles.

He was found to be asleep and under the influence of alcohol. Officers woke the man, who was found to be aware of his surroundings and understood what the officers were saying to him.

Officers determined that he was not so intoxicated that they needed to arrest him for being drunk and incapable.

At around 2pm that day, a friend of the man discovered he had died in his flat.

A Police Investigations and Review Commissioner investigation found he had died as a result of taking an opiate and a designer drug.

An investigation found that officers had acted appropriately and the man’s death could not have been foreseen.

Two young children were in a house in Glasgow when a firearm was discharged and a window damaged in what the police are calling a ‘targeted attack’.

Police are appealing for witnesses of the incident which took place at a house in Calton on Tuesday, February 23 at around 9.15pm.

Officers were called to the house on Green Street after receiving the report, and enquiries are ongoing.

Nobody was injured in the incident, though a window in the property was damaged.

Detective Sergeant Lisa Macdonald of Shettleston Police Station said: “I believe that this was a targeted attack, carried out at night to intimidate the occupants of the house.

“This type of behaviour is completely reckless and will not be tolerated. Thankfully no one was injured during this incident, however there were two adults and two young children, aged two and six, in the house at the time.