A man and two women have been charged with murder following death of a man in a Fountainbridge flat.

Armed police and ambulance staff were called to a property on Gibson Terrace opposite the Fountain Park complex on Sunday night.

Ambulance service personnel treated the 41-year-old man at the scene but he was later pronounced dead.

A man aged 36 and two women aged 34 and 39 were arrested and charged with murder.

They are expected to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court this afternoon.

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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.