Crime

A GUN enthusiast sent terrifying messages to a woman he met on a dating site – telling her he could see her through a rifle scope from miles away and was going to turn up at a school where he thought she worked.

A BUS driver today told the trial of an antiques dealer accused of stealing heirlooms he was entrusted to sell that he had found valuables “strewn across the floor” of a warehouse after the man’s shop closed down.

A hot food delivery car was stolen from outside a chip shop by a drunk man who then smashed it into a Salvation Army building.

An elderly Fife woman has been left shaken after bogus callers conned her out of a large sum of money.

A MAN is to stand trial accused of starting a fire outside a block of flats that forced occupants to jump from their windows to escape the blaze.

The family of missing Fife man Allan Bryant are to appear on the BBC’s Crimewatch Roadshow today appealing for information as to their son’s whereabouts.

A PENSIONER today told a court that she left her grandson’s massive American Akita dog alone in her garden as she went to watch Emmerdale mo plments before it chewed through a fence and savaged a girl playing on her trampoline.

“It doesn’t change what I do daily,” says Jim Harvey, a response officer based in Kirkcaldy.

A CLERK who stole over £3000 from a dozen residents at the council owned care home where she worked has dodged jail.

Police have issued a security warning to local businesses in Fife, following high-value fraud.

A DRIVING instructor was today ordered to stand trial accused of sexually assaulting 15 of his female students.

Last month, Inspector Black wrote about policing the Links Market, our response to a number of violent incidents and the proactive work carried out by our colleagues from Police Scotland’s Communities Prevention Task Force.

Police in Fife are appealing for witnesses after a man exposed himself on the Fife Coastal Path.

A THUG who used a broken hockey stick to attack a man with special needs has been warned he could go to jail.

Cheques and bank withdrawals worth a total of £14,000 were stopped from being processed and seven arrests were made in Fife last week thanks to the Banking Protocol.

A Fife man has been jailed after police busted a heroin shipment with a street value of £63 million.

An IT technician at a Fife school who downloaded sick child abuse images on to a school laptop has received a community payback order.

A 34-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly attacking a 32-year-old man in Dysart.

“We want people to know that there’s always help out there. There’s always support available.”