Man ‘hid in wardrobe after attempted murder in close’
A MAN has been charged with an attempted murder bid in a tenement close in Dundee — and then allegedly hiding in a wardrobe to avoid detection. John McGrandle is accused of trying to kill David Kettles...
View ArticleMan admits attack near murder scene
A MAN who was incriminated in a murder trial today admitted carrying out a violent assault yards from the scene of the fatal attack. James Kelbie was blamed for the murder of James Getty during the...
View ArticleMan charged over historic ‘sex attacks’
A MAN has been charged with a series of historic sex attacks dating back more than a quarter of a century. Keith Deary, 46, is facing allegations over alleged sexual assaults that are said to have...
View ArticleMan arrested in Dysart after ‘acting suspiciously’
A man has been arrested after reports of someone acting “suspiciously” in Dysart, Fife. Police were called in the early hours of this morning. Inspector Tom Brown who is based at Levenmouth police...
View ArticleFacebook stalker’s threat to ‘hurt’ young student
A STALKER bombarded a student with Facebook messages for four years and made threats that his victim would “get hurt”. Spurned Gregor Sharpe, 24, was spotted at Fiona Leeper’s work and even said he was...
View ArticleMan superimposed his own face onto child abuse pictures
A man who superimposed his own face on to sick child sex abuse pictures was today facing jail. James Boyack’s home in Dundee’s Clepington Road was raided following intelligence that he was in...
View ArticleFive years’ jail for firearms offender
A DUNDEE gun enthusiast has been jailed for five years for storing an illegal weapon. Paul Markie was found with a Smith and Wesson pistol and ammunition in his work locker in Dundee last April....
View ArticleThief stole £20k elephant tusks from landlord
A THIEF who stole elephant tusks valued at £20,000 from his landlord’s house has been jailed for 14 months. Aurimas Kyliokas talked Nazir Valihahomed, a colleague at the restaurant he was working in in...
View ArticleSix months’ jail for reset of van
A MAN has been jailed for six months at Dundee Sheriff Court after admitting having a stolen van and being in possession of drugs. Gary Cummings, 26, of Gleneagles Avenue, pleaded guilty to reset of...
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Fury at sentence for attack on double amputee
THE son of an amputee, who was viciously assaulted, said today it was “absolutely disgusting” his father’s attacker was admonished. Murray Dewar, of Hepburn Street, Dundee, struck Jack Wemyss, 83, on...
View ArticleMan admits he had sex with three kids in Dundee
A TEENAGER has admitted having sex with three children in Dundee. Kyle Leonard, 19, committed the offences on separate occasions between the winter of 2013 and the spring of 2014, Dundee Sheriff Court...
View ArticleMan charged in crackdown on bogus workmen
A man has been charged during a police crackdown on bogus workmen and doorstep crime. Police Scotland confirmed that a 44-year-old man had been detained in connection with crimes of dishonesty and...
View ArticleCurfew for knife teen who threatened to cut girl’s throat
A TEENAGER, who pulled out a knife and threatened to cut a girl’s throat before pushing her down stairs, has had his sentence deferred for good behaviour. Ryan Finlayson, 18, of Badenoch Place,...
View ArticleMan pulled knife on shop worker over beer refusal
A man threatened a shop worker with a large hunting knife after the assistant refused to sell him beer. Sean Thomson, 26, had written his own name on the knife’s eight-inch blade with a marker pen...
View ArticleFamily of pensioner to appeal Tesco assault case appeal
The son of an amputee who was smashed in the face with a shopping basket is to take his father’s case to the Sheriff Appeal Court in Edinburgh. Murray Dewar, of the city’s Hepburn Street, struck Jack...
View ArticleKiller gets 21 years in jail for murdering Alan Gardner
A 31-year-old has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering another man in his Perthshire home. At the High Court in Edinburgh, Nikola Zhulev was told he must serve at...
View ArticleJail for thugs who broke man’s jaw outside takeaway
Two thugs who fractured another man’s face in two places during a Dundee city centre attack have been jailed. Omar Rafiq, 28, and Lee Murphy, 33, were both given prison sentences at Dundee Sheriff...
View ArticleMan who murdered Katy Rourke jailed for 17-years
A man who stabbed his flatmate in the heart after claiming she refused to have sex with him has been jailed for a minimum of 17 years for her murder. Gary Stevenson killed 25-year-old Katy Rourke at...
View ArticleMan charged with college sex attacks
A MAN has been charged over a series of alleged sex attacks at a college campus in Dundee. Jamie Robertson, 24, of Dundee Street in Carnoustie, pleaded not guilty to 10 charges against him. All of the...
View ArticleMan ‘had airgun and ammo in Dundee park’
A MAN has been charged with carrying a gun and ammunition in a public park in Dundee. Graham Kyle, 48, is accused of having the weapon — an unloaded .22 air rifle — and .22 ammunition without authority...
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