{"id":470934,"date":"2025-10-03T11:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/470934\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T11:16:12","slug":"murder-trial-to-begin-at-high-court-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/470934\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder trial to begin at High Court in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"665\" height=\"528\" class=\"attachment-single-entry size-single-entry wp-post-image\" alt=\"Murder trial to begin at High Court in Edinburgh\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181520-181525.jpeg\" data- data-uk-img=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Claire Leveque.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A murder trial is set to begin at the High Court in Edinburgh following the death of a 24-year-old woman in Shetland.<\/p>\n<p>Aren Pearson, 41, denies murdering his partner Claire Leveque, at a garage in Sandness on 11th February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service confirmed the\u00a0trial was scheduled to start on Tuesday, with balloting of the jury scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Arthurson will be  presiding over the trial, which is scheduled to last for eight days.<\/p>\n<p>The murder charge alleges Pearson repeatedly struck Miss Leveque on the head, neck and body with a knife or knives.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson is also accused of assault, attempting to defeat the ends of justice and threatening or abusive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>He is alleged to have driven a vehicle into the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson denied all charges when the case was heard at the High Court in Glasgow in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claire Leveque.\u00a0 A murder trial is set to begin at the High Court in Edinburgh following the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,1619,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-470934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-murder","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}