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1 month ago | 
thecourier.co.uk | James Mulholland |Jamie Buchan
A landowner has failed to overturn a government decision forcing it to sell an ‘eyesore’ piece of land linked to Mary Queen of Scots in St Andrews. The Forthtay Limited Employee Trust instructed lawyers to go to Dundee Sheriff Court to argue that the Scottish Ministers acted unlawfully towards it. The trust accused the Scottish Government of “apparent bias” towards a community group called Poet’s Neuk.
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2 months ago | 
thecourier.co.uk | James Mulholland |Alan Richardson
A career criminal who tried to murder a man in Dundee by driving and reversing a car over him has been jailed for seven years and four months. Marley Williams, 24, tried to kill James Cooper in the early hours of July 9 2024 at Strathmore Avenue. The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Williams was a passenger in a Ford Fiesta when he encountered Mr Cooper.
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2 months ago | 
thecourier.co.uk | James Mulholland |Alan Richardson
A paedophile who photographed himself repeatedly sexually abusing a child was caught after cybercrime investigators discovered he was using his home wifi to share sickening content. Alan Moir, 43, was brought to justice after police received intelligence from the National Online Child Abuse Prevention (NOCAP) organisation. The High Court in Edinburgh heard on Tuesday how NOCAP discovered an Internet Protocol address had been sharing child abuse content.
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2 months ago | 
thecourier.co.uk | James Mulholland |Alan Richardson
A lottery winner from Dundee who blew his fortune and turned to drug-dealing made more than £158,000 from his life of crime, a court heard. Jack Tanbini,29, was handed a five-year, five-month sentence in January 2025. The judge had heard how Tanbini – who won a payout after buying a scratch card – was caught by police with more than £150,000 of cocaine at his home in Dundee. Detectives raided the property in Easson’s Angle on two separate occasions.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
thecourier.co.uk | James Mulholland |Alan Richardson
Prosecutors have succeeded in a bid to increase the minimum term a Fife murderer will have to serve for killing a man in a “brutal and prolonged” attack. Christopher Brown, 36, was told he would serve at least 13 years for murdering Henry White, 57, in Oakley on March 21 2024. Brown was given a life sentence at the High Court in Inverness and judge Lady Hood imposed the 13-year term as the punishment part of his life sentence. Prosecutors believed it should have been longer.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
thecourier.co.uk | James Mulholland |Alan Richardson
A former pupil of one of Scotland’s top schools who went “rogue” and turned to a life of crime has been jailed for firearms and drugs offences. Jonathan Methven, 23, was given a four-year jail term by judge Lady Ross at the High Court in Edinburgh. The court heard how in January 2022 police found a blank firing pistol, which had been converted to fire live bullets, in a metal tin at Culross cemetery in Fife. Detectives also found 19 cartridges which were “viable” ammunition.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
thecourier.co.uk | James Mulholland |Alan Richardson
A teenager fractured the skull of a 13-year-old child in a Dundee car park by repeatedly jumping on his head. Jay Simpson,18, subjected the youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to a sickening assault at the Asda Kirkton supermarket. The High Court in Edinburgh heard on Wednesday how the attack took place on May 13 2024. Simpson initially approached the youngster and punched him on the head, which caused him to fall over.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
thecourier.co.uk | James Mulholland |Alan Richardson
A murder bid victim was driven over and dragged along the road under the car in Dundee. Marley Williams, 24, tried to kill James Cooper in the early hours of July 9 2024 at the city’s Strathmartine Road. The High Court in Edinburgh heard on Wednesday how Williams was a passenger in a Ford Fiesta van when he encountered Mr Cooper. Judge Lord Summers heard how the driver got out and started chasing Mr Cooper with a knife. Williams then took control of the Fiesta and started driving at Mr Cooper.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
thecourier.co.uk | James Mulholland |Alan Richardson
Fife’s notorious “urban hunter” subjected children to sickening rape ordeals over a four-year period. Brandon Robb, 28, preyed on two little girls and a young boy at locations in Leslie between May 2011 and May 2015. He also terrified two women in the town in incidents which took place between November 2019 and February 2023. Jurors at the High Court in Edinburgh heard how in one of the incidents, Robb seized his victim by her neck, compressed her breathing and repeatedly punched her.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thecourier.co.uk | James Mulholland |Alan Richardson
A rapist from Dundee who subjected one of his victims to a sickening “stealthing” attack has been jailed for more than six years. Andrew Waghorn,31, was having consensual sex with his victim at a hotel in Dundee in early 2020. The High Court in Dundee heard last year how he then removed his condom without the woman’s consent. The convicted domestic abuser then seized the woman’s hand and moved it away from her private parts before he started to have non-consensual sex.
