Stephen Kerr: “The results of their cuts are plain to see and communities are living in fear of violent offenders.”

This is yet another insult to taxpayers and another indictment of the SNP's broken justice system.

Freedom of information laws are there to protect the public’s right to know, yet the nationalist Government repeatedly failed to comply with the commissioner’s decision and deadlines.

This is what nearly two decades of SNP failure on justice looks like: rising crime, weaker sentences and a justice system that criminals can increasingly take advantage of.

Scottish taxpayers will be utterly sickened that the legal aid bill for Peter Murrell is set to keep rising, with tens of thousands of pounds now likely to be handed to the lawyers of a man who has been jailed after embezzling more than…