Crime

The Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) has launched an investigation into police actions prior to the death of elderly woman in Fife last year.

A Fife woman used her dead mum to claim £53,000 in pension payments for nine years after she passed away.

A 50-year-old Fife man has been jailed for a year for sending sex messages to someone he thought was a 12-year-old girl.

A taxi driver was repeatedly punched by a drunk man as he drove on the motorway near Dunfermline.

Mindless vandals destroyed the pitch at a community playing field ahead of a game this week, churning up the grass on quad bikes.

Two custody officers at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court were badly injured after being violently attacked by a prisoner.

A 46-year-old man has admitted downloading child porn at his home in Fife.

The new courtrooms which are being built at Kirkcaldy police station are on track to open in just a few months, it has been revealed.

Police have arrived in force at an incident in Cardenden this afternoon.

A woman has been arrested after an incident on Christmas Day which saw a man die in Kirkcaldy.

Police are investigating a New Year’s day incident in Kirkcaldy in which a man was stabbed.

A man has died in Kirkcaldy after being found seriously injured on Christmas Day.

A man who committed a sex offence at a Fife bus station, has been jailed.

Callous flytippers blocked a farm road on the outskirts of Kirkcaldy just 24 hours after a farm had cleared away the rubbish from a previous incident.

Police are probing a weekend incident which left two men seriously injured.

A serial domestic abuser drove a car so erratically that his terrified partner was thrown out on to the road.

A vicious bully who subjected two partners to repeated violence at their homes in Glenrothes has been jailed for four years.

Police have hailed the conviction of a man who murdered a Kirkcaldy father earlier this year.