Teen stabbed door after assault and threatened to ‘cut girl’s throat’
A Dundee teenager took a knife out of his pocket and threatened to cut a girl’s throat — before pushing her down some stairs, punching and kicking her. Ryan Finlayson, 18, of Badenoch Place, also...
View Article‘Vile’ revenge porn man lodges sentence appeal
A man who hacked into a woman’s email account and sent “revenge porn” pictures of her to a swingers website has launched an appeal against his prison sentence. Gordon Sime, 63, bombarded the woman with...
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Pizza chef murdered jeweller with frying pan
A man has been found guilty of murdering a Tayside jeweller who befriended him and gave him a home. Nikola Zhulev bludgeoned Alan Gardner to death with a heavy frying pan and stole from him, the High...
View ArticleMan headbutted glass door and threatened to petrol bomb pub
A MAN headbutted the glass pane of a door to a Dundee pub then threatened to “petrol bomb” the venue. Kevin Hughes, 30, a prisoner at Perth, was jailed for 95 days at Dundee Sheriff Court. Hughes...
View ArticleMan charged over alleged screwdriver attack
Police descended on a Dundee multi after a man allegedly attacked his partner with a screwdriver. Nearly a dozen police officers swooped on the Whorterbank block after the alleged attack on Wednesday....
View ArticleMan jailed for breaking into flat he thought was his own after boozy night out
A boozy man — who forced his way into his neighbour’s flat thinking it was his own — has been jailed for eight months. Julian Coker, 32, of Blackness Road, was locked up at Dundee Sheriff Court. Coker...
View ArticleDundee man charged with rape of woman
A Dundee man has been charged with carrying out two rapes in the city. Malcolm Fraser, 40, of High Street in Lochee, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court accused of multiple sex crimes. Fraser faced two...
View ArticleRoofer stole £500 worth of diamond rings from sheltered flat
A ROOFER stole £500 worth of diamond rings from a Dundee sheltered housing complex where he was doing work. Daniel Mudie, 34, pinched five diamond rings and costume jewellery from Ruth Dye’s home in...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to murder of Katy Rourke
A man has pleaded guilty to murdering 25-year-old Broughty Ferry woman Katy Rourke today after stabbing her three times when she refused sex. The accused, Gary Stevenson, 27, of Glasgow kept his head...
View ArticleMan left with facial fractures after attack outside takeaway
A MAN who was the victim of an unprovoked attack outside a city takeaway was left with two facial fractures. Dundee Sheriff Court heard Omar Rafiq, 28, and Lee Murphy, 33, both punched Paul Gordon on...
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View ArticleThug in bid to cut jail term after he carried out campaign of abuse
A THUG who carried out a four-and-a-half year campaign of domestic abuse against his girlfriend is appealing his jail sentence. Kenneth Macmillan, 42, was locked up for 20 months for “repeated physical...
View ArticleMan jailed for theft of £20k from parents
A thief, who stole £20,580 and jewellery worth £9,000 from his own parents, has been jailed for 16 months. Rickie Tait, 37, of Clepington Road, carried out the theft from his parents’ home on Emmock...
View ArticleMan jailed for setting stolen van on fire on Broughty Ferry Road
A man who set fire to a stolen van on a Dundee street has been jailed. Darren Walker, 33, stuffed the petrol valve of a stolen van with business cards then set alight to them in the incident. Walker...
View ArticleRAF serviceman threatened to rape woman on Tinder dating app
An RAF serviceman threatened to rape a woman on an online dating site. Nathan Brown, 23, who’s based at Leuchars, repeatedly sent a woman threatening messages of an explicit nature via Tinder. Dundee...
View ArticleThree deny ‘struggle’ on Dundee bus
Two men and a woman allegedly spat at each other and engaged in a fight on a Dundee bus. David Cahill, 37, of Laing Place, Pamela Dingwall, 34, of Mains Road, and Richard Christie, 39, also of Mains...
View ArticleTrio charged after man’s ‘abduction’
THREE people have been charged with abducting a man from a house in Dundee, forcing him into a car and detaining him against his will. Emmanuel Nsiah, 34, Lee Younger, 37, and Andrew Ward, 58,...
View ArticleMan facing knife charges after claims he threatened to stab people
A MAN, who allegedly had two knives and threatened to stab people, appeared in private before a sheriff at Dundee. Joseph Sinclair, 20, of Dunholm Road, made no plea or declaration relation to two...
View ArticleTeen stole council tractor and went on joyride
A TEENAGER who stole a council-owned tractor and drove it round a building site has been locked up. At Dundee Sheriff Court, Ryan Simpson, 19, of Carlochie Place, admitted stealing a vehicle in Earn...
View ArticleMan who pretended to be cop and attacked teenagers is spared jail
A MAN who pretended to be a police detective before demanding two young men empty their pockets and assaulting one of them was today spared jail – for now. Robert Clark spotted a group of teenagers...
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