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November 26, 2025 Criminal Record 26/11/25 - Operation Portaledge latest | Tartan Army World Cup warning | Bothwell firebombings
Daily Record’s Ruth Suter is joined by crime reporter Norman Silvester on the Criminal Record podcast to discuss the last weeks' major crime stories in Scotland and beyond.
On Criminal Record this week:
The cost of Operation Portaledge - the police investigation into the recent organised crime violence in Scotland involving the Daniels and Lyons crime families.
The first Portaledge conviction
Warnings for football fans going to crime ridden Mexico as Scotland qualifies for the World Cup
Missing Scot feared murdered over debt to gangsters
Restaurant firebombings in Bothwell
Police increase in Taser firing

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30 min
November 18, 2025 Criminal Record | Missing man feared murdered by underworld connections after disappearing almost 25 years ago
The Daily Record's crime reporter Norman Silvester speaks to Caroline Armour, whose brother Joseph Connelly dissapeared almost 25 years ago. Caroline has not reported her oder brother dead as the family continue to chase answers over Joseph's unexpected dissapearance, delving into potential criminal involvment and new leads.
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42 min
November 12, 2025 Criminal Record 12/11/25 - TV crime expert Professor David Wilson on why he thinks Alistair Wilson was killed by a professional hitman | Bible John suspect named | Prison overcrowding and how to fix it
Television crime expert and author Professor David Wilson gives Criminal Record his views on prison overcrowding, organised crime, and why Scotland's homicide rate is at its' lowest for 54 years.
Professor Wilson, who has written a new book A History of Modern Britain in 20 murders, also suggests a possible suspect for Bible John and why he thinks the killer of Nairn banker Alistair Wilson was a professional hitman.

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57 min
November 06, 2025 Criminal Record | IRA in Glasgow and Stone of Destiny theft with former cop Alastair Dinsmor MBE
Glasgow Police Museum curator and former city cop Alastair Dinsmor MBE joins Norman Silvester on this week's Criminal Record.
The pair discuss the history of the Glasgow Police force, as well as famous incidents that took place in the city. Alastair recalls IRA violence spilling into Scotland, as well as the famous theft of the Stone of Destiny by a group of Scottish students in 1950.
Glasgow Police Museum is operating on winter hours November - March and can be visited on Tuesdays 10am - 4:30pm and Sundays 12pm - 4:30pm.

Host: Norman Silvester
Producer: Molly Finlay

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44 min
October 28, 2025 Criminal Record 28/10/25 - Police widow Christine Fulton calls for tasers and body cams on frontline cops
Crime reporter, Norman Silvestry, speaks with Christine Fulton of Kilmarnock, a founder of the police charity COPS—Care of Police Survivors—which supports the loved ones of police officers who have been killed in the line of duty.
She founded COPS in 2003 after her own husband Lewis was murdered in the Gorbals in 1994.

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31 min
October 16, 2025 Criminal Record 16/10/25 - Monaghan/Lyons murder latest | Graham Wright killing | Walter Smith statue fire
Daily Record’s Ruth Suter is joined by crime reporter Norman Silvester on the Criminal Record podcast to discuss the latest news in the Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons JR murder as suspect Michael Riley is extradited to Spain, the attack of a Daniel crime family member in Drumchapel last week, the killing of Rangers fan Graham Wright and vandalism at Ibrox after statue of former Rangers manager Walter Smith was set on fire.

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26 min
October 02, 2025 Criminal Record 2/10/25 | Scotland gang war latest | Alistair Wilson cold case | Clutha bar robbed
The Daily Record's Ryan Carroll and Norman Silvester talk through the latest crime stories from across Scotland

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26 min
September 23, 2025 Criminal Record 23/9/25 | Top cop on snaring 'World's End' serial killer and policing the real Trainspotting heroin boom

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50 min
September 10, 2025 Criminal Record 09/09/25 - Colin Sutton on his 30 year career in the Met and bringing Levi Bellfield to justice
Former Met DCI Colin Sutton talks to the Record's crime corrospondent, Norman Silvester.
Colin Sutton was a Senior Investigating Officer in the Metropolitan Police from January 2003 to January 2011, leading more than thirty successful murder investigations, notably the Levi Bellfield case and the successful re-investigation of the seventeen-year reign of terror of the rapist burglar Delroy Grant, known as the Nightstalker.

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41 min
September 03, 2025 Criminal Record 03/09/25 - My 37 year fight for justice for murdered Glasgow mum Mary Mclaughlin
Gina McGavin fought for 37-years for justice after her mother Mary Mclaughlin was murdered at her home in Partick, Glasgow in 1984.
In the latest episode of the Daily Record's weekly crime show, Criminal Record, Gina and author and journalist Jane Hamilton, tell the story of Mary's murder and the subsequent conviction in 2021 of Graham McGill.
The pair have recently published a book My Mothers Murder which gives a moving account of the cold case that was only solved due to the advancement of forensic science.

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31 min