Ross Gardiner

Fife, Tayside

Court and Crime Reporter at The Courier (Ballarat, VIC)

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Articles

Notorious paedophile from Angus flouted child contact ban at Scottish car meets

4 days ago | thecourier.co.uk | Ross Gardiner

A paedophile from Angus, dubbed one of the most depraved in Scotland, is back in jail after a jury found he breached a strict child contact ban at car meets across Scotland. Paedophile petrolhead Steven Perrie, who is also known as Steven MacDonald, stood trial at Forfar Sheriff Court accused of flouting his strict Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO).
Fiend to be deported after sex attack on trafficked teen in Fife

5 days ago | thecourier.co.uk | Ross Gardiner

A second man has been jailed for sexually assaulting a teenager transported from Romania to a Kirkcaldy flat to be forced into prostitution. Alexandru Lache has finally been brought to justice almost six years after terrifying a vulnerable woman in a Pratt Street flat. Lache’s co-accused Octav-George Dimitru was last year convicted and locked up following the horrifying assault on the then-teenager.
Fife family car firebomber given unpaid work in 'overall interests of justice'

5 days ago | thecourier.co.uk | Ross Gardiner

A thug who teamed up with an unknown assailant to firebomb a family’s SUV in a rural Fife village has been sentenced. John Wishart smashed the window of a Nissan Qashqai parked on Crawford Terrace in Springfield, north-east Fife, before his accomplice set the car alight through the broken window. No motive was identified for Wishart’s offending, which took place less than a month after his prison licence ended.
Money launderer caught on A90 in Perthshire with £200,000 cash in car boot

5 days ago | thecourier.co.uk | Ross Gardiner

A habitual money launderer is back behind bars after police pulled him over in the Carse of Gowrie with more than £200,000 cash in a bag for life. Edward Chesser was stopped on the A90 with wads of banknotes bundled up in the boot. Officers suspected the already convicted dirty money handler of being concerned in the supply of cocaine, finding wraps of the Class A drug worth more than £300.
Angus bingo boss nabbed £15k from safe and fixed float data to hide thefts

5 days ago | thecourier.co.uk | Ross Gardiner

The boss of a busy Angus bingo hall has admitted pilfering more than £15,000 from its safe and cooking the books to disguise her thefts. Lindsey Crooknorth appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court to admit a year-long campaign of embezzling from Buzz Bingo in Arbroath when she was its manager. The 41-year-old was rumbled when a company auditor began reviewing floats across the firm’s branches.
Prolific offender jailed for trying to bite police officers at Perth Ladbrokes

5 days ago | thecourier.co.uk | Ross Gardiner

A violent offender who kicked off at police who caught him breaching bail in a Perth bookies has been jailed for more than a year. Thomas Proudfoot, of Lynedoch Road in Methven, was only weeks into a community sentence imposed for violent offending at Perth bus station. The 28-year-old quadruple amputee, who lost his limbs in a 2012 train tragedy, was handed a community sentence for that incident but an early review of his progress left a sheriff unimpressed.
Fife family car firebomber given unpaid work in 'overall interests of justice'

6 days ago | original106.co.uk | Ross Gardiner

A thug who teamed up with an unknown assailant to firebomb a family’s SUV in a rural Fife village has been sentenced. John Wishart smashed the window of a Nissan Qashqai parked on Crawford Terrace in Springfield, north-east Fife, before his accomplice set the car alight through the broken window. No motive was identified for Wishart’s offending, which took place less than a month after his prison licence ended.
Fiend to be deported after sex attack on trafficked teen in Fife

1 week ago | original106.co.uk | Ross Gardiner

A second man has been jailed for sexually assaulting a teenager transported from Romania to a Kirkcaldy flat to be forced into prostitution. Alexandru Lache has finally been brought to justice almost six years after terrifying a vulnerable woman in a Pratt Street flat. Lache’s co-accused Octav-George Dimitru was last year convicted and locked up following the horrifying assault on the then-teenager.
Jurors convict wall-punching Dundee domestic abuser who held hot pan against partner's arm

1 week ago | original106.co.uk | Ross Gardiner

A domestic abuser from Dundee has been convicted of a campaign of violence towards his former partner. Arslan Ali was unanimously found guilty of three charges he faced following a four day trial at Dundee Sheriff Court. Jurors found that Ali engaged in a course of abusive conduct between the summers of 2021 and 2023. He held a hot pan against the woman’s arm, leaving her scarred for life, the court heard.
Commonwealth medal-winning boxer described as 'enforcer' after violent attacks and victim intimidation in Angus

2 weeks ago | original106.co.uk | Ross Gardiner

Brothers from Montrose ended up in court together after one attacked a man in Angus and the other intimidated him into not reporting it to police. Teenager Sean Docherty punched his victim around 20 times, before his brother John left the man so scared he and his family fled to temporary accommodation. After Commonwealth bronze-medal winning boxer John Docherty also admitted a separate assault, the sheriff suggested he may be “something of an enforcer”.