A 40-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a two-year-old boy in Edinburgh.

The incident happened within a property in the Muirhouse area around 9.30am on Saturday morning.

He is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday, 23 November.

Detective Chief Inspector Lynn McFall said: “I’d like to thank the local people in the Muirhouse community for their help during this inquiry. This was an isolated incident.”

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John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.