Jamie McKenzie

Fife

Crime and Courts Reporter at The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)

Crime and Courts Reporter @thecourieruk. Views my own. If you’ve got a tip or story email [email protected]

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Speeding driver lost control of car in Fife before head-on crash

3 weeks ago | original106.co.uk | Jamie McKenzie

A speeding driver lost control of his car at a bend in Fife and crashed head-on with another vehicle, badly injuring others. Jamie McAndrew’s white Seat Ibiza collided with an Audi on Kingseat Road, Dunfermline, after he crossed into the opposing carriagewayThe front seat passenger in his own car and the female passenger in the Audi suffered broken bones. He was also injured in the October 26 2022 crash.
85mph Fife driver tailgated and undertook ambulance because he was late for dinner

3 weeks ago | original106.co.uk | Jamie McKenzie

An 18-year-old driver tailgated an ambulance at 85mph on the A92 in Fife, then undertook it, because he was late for dinner. At Dunfermline Sheriff Court, Harry Docherty apologised for his driving and said he was trying to get himself and his girlfriend to a restaurant before it closed. The court heard the ambulance was responding to an emergency in Dunfermline city centre at the time and had its blue lights and sirens on.
Pensioner guilty of 'alarming' people by exposing himself at front door in Fife

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Jamie McKenzie

A Fife man found guilty of “alarming” his village neighbours by twice exposing himself at his front door claims he was urinating because he could not get upstairs to his toilet. Douglas Keir, 68, was seen holding his penis in February last year by a couple driving home from the cinema and ten months later, by a man looking from his home on the street.
Pensioner guilty of 'alarming' people by exposing himself at front door in Fife

1 month ago | original106.co.uk | Jamie McKenzie

A Fife man found guilty of “alarming” his village neighbours by twice exposing himself at his front door claims he was urinating because he could not get upstairs to his toilet. Douglas Keir, 68, was seen holding his penis in February last year by a couple driving home from the cinema and ten months later, by a man looking from his home on the street.
Abusive prisoner from Fife called wife 1,382 times from behind bars

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Jamie McKenzie

A prisoner bombarded his wife in Fife with 1,382 phone calls from behind bars, including making threats to kill her, during a six-month period of domestic abuse. James Finn, 38, threatened to go on hunger strike unless his wife answered his calls. Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard Finn was serving a sentence from January 2023 and his then-wife spoke to him by phone and visited him.
Dog breeder who caused £3.5k of damage to Fife Holiday Inn Express is admonished

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Jamie McKenzie

A dog breeder who caused £3,500 of damage to his Fife hotel room before being caught with an illegal spray has been admonished by a court after paying the compensation and behaving himself. Daniel Robertson trashed the room during a drunken rampage at the Holiday Inn Express in Dunfermline’s Halbeath Road on July 30 2023. Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard he had been there with his wife and his dog, which was to be used in breeding in the area.
Fife Instagram drug dealer who sold behind surgery is sentenced

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Jamie McKenzie

A 20-year-old who pedalled drugs on Instagram and sold to schoolchildren behind a Fife doctor surgery has been given unpaid work as punishment. Reiss Leighton, who claimed his dealing stemmed from his own drug debt problems arranged to meet teenagers at Linburn Road Health Centre in Dunfermline. During one deal, a girl started vomiting and “felt as though she could not move” after taking a pill. Leighton was rumbled after school staff found two tablets in a purse belonging to one of the girls.
Fife neighbour-from-hell made 'biker gang' threat

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Jamie McKenzie

A Fife neighbour-from-hell who was asked to keep the noise down responded by saying: “One phone call to the biker gang and you are missing in the morning”. Craig Suttie, 64, was said to have been boozing with friend Samantha Laird at her home before making the threat. The pair appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court to plead guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at the address in Fleming Crescent, Blairhall, on April 25 this year.
Fife driver who hit wall – leaving four badly injured – may have been 'showing off'

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Jamie McKenzie

A young Fife driver may have been “showing off” when he lost control of his car and struck a wall, leaving himself and three passengers seriously injured. Grant Moffat’s vehicle was split in two in the horrific crash on the A955 near East Wemyss on the evening of October 1 2023. He ended up in hospital for about a month and his partner and two other friends in the car suffered multiple broken bones.
Fife man ranted takeaway driver would 'get his head shot off'

1 month ago | thecourier.co.uk | Jamie McKenzie

A Fife man who told a 999 call handler a takeaway delivery driver was going to “get his head shot off” during a racist rant has been given a community payback order. Leon Shepstone said he would be “kicking the f**k out of that p*ki little b*****d” if police did not show up within 10 minutes. He claimed he would go to the Peri-Licious takeaway in Cardenden and “start stabbing people”.