Elizabeth Sweeney, 36, is accused of killing Neil Jolly, 51, by repeatedly punching him and striking him to the head and body with a kettle.
Zoltan Anderson repeated punched his victim and stabbed him in the arm, a court was told.
Michael Walker, 78, was caught with more than 174,000 pictures and videos of children.
Jack Airens and Chase Johnstone, both 20, subjected their victim to hours of physical and mental abuse, even shaving off half his hair.
Our reporters have been sitting in courtrooms across the north and north-east this week and covered a wide variety of cases.
A sheriff was assured that Aberdeen romance scammer Scott Fraser had turned over a new leaf - but he broke the law on his way to a probation hearing.
