Kirsty McIntosh
The Courier
United Kingdom
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Tattooed Snapchat pervert’s inking give him away in sick pics sent to Fife girls
Daniel Lynch said his 'finger slipped' after sending one disgusting image. → Read More
Fife Snapchat paedophile jailed after contact with 14-year-old leads to damning court report
A Fife sex offender who defied a ban on contacting teenage girls has been jailed after officials deemed him a risk to the community. Kamran Saeed will → Read More
Court told Fife carp fisher's Covid hoax was 'a piece of nastiness'
Deriusz Surmacz argued with a fellow fisherman and then told attending police he had Covid-19 at the height of the pandemic. → Read More
Using Sheku Bayoh skin colour was appropriate to co-ordinate response, inquiry told
One of the officers in charge of co-ordinating the response to Sheku Bayoh has told the inquiry into his death it was relevant to refer to him as “black”. → Read More
Sheku Bayoh death inquiry — As the probe restarts, what have we learned so far?
As the inquiry into the death in Kirkcaldy of Sheku Bayoh re-starts, The Courier looks back at evidence given in the first session. → Read More
Teenage joiner wrote off Mini in Kirkcaldy drink-drive crash
Owen Galbraith, 19, lost control of his mother's Mini Clubman while drink-driving in Kirkcaldy in June this year. → Read More
Woman appears in court accused of attempting to murder 16-year-old in Fife
The private appearance in Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court came after an incident in Leslie, Fife, in which a teenager was apparently badly injured. → Read More
Sheriff agrees Fife 999 nuisance was ‘being a fanny’
A Methilhill man who made nuisance 999 calls to police told officers: “I was being a fanny” - and a sheriff agreed. Stuart Yule felt police were not being → Read More
VIDEO: Sheku Bayoh inquiry hears frantic 999 calls for first time
Frantic 999 calls to police have been heard for the first time at the Sheku Bayoh inquiry. Experts have created a minute-by-minute virtual reconstruction → Read More
Violent offender threatened to ‘rape and murder’ police in Fife
Christopher Fraser made vile threats against officers as they placed him inside a van. He later urinated inside the vehicle. → Read More
‘It’s always there’: Survivor of 1981 Fife fatal nurses’ fire speaks for first time
People jumped for their lives during a fatal fire at the nurses' home at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy in November 1981. → Read More
Woman accused of biting off another’s ear ‘did not spit chunk back out’
Kirkcaldy sheriff Court heard Sian Marshall attacked Chantelle Mitchell, biting her ear but that she did not seem to spit the chunk out. → Read More
Police assaulted at memorial gathering which was breaching Covid regulations
Angela Higginson assaulted police officers after they had been called to a memorial which was said to be breaching Covid regulations. → Read More
HGV driver admits ploughing into back of car at Fife roundabout
Robert Bell was at the wheel of the HGV when it slammed into the back of a car at the Redhouse Roundabout near Kirkcaldy, Fife. → Read More
Fife man covered body of mauled dog with t-shirt to stop children seeing it
A Dunfermline man has told how he covered the body of a tiny dog with a t-shirt to prevent schoolchildren from witnessing the bloodbath after it was mauled to death by a bigger dog. → Read More
Dundee predator jailed for ‘despicable’ rape of teenage girl during drinking game
Dundee predator Bryan Wilson carried out the rape after getting his 15-year-old victim drunk as part of a drinking game. He has been jailed. → Read More
Fife shopkeeper grabbed robber’s ‘handgun’ and marched him from store
A Fife shopkeeper turned the tables on a would-be thief by wrestling a handgun from him and marching him on to the street. → Read More
Fife woman extorts £15,000 and a TV set after threatening to brand man a sex offender
Sharon McDonald threatened to tell people the Fife man was a sex offender in order to extort thousands of pounds - and a TV set. → Read More
‘I want to protect other kids’ — Angus rape survivor speaks out after years of anguish
As she cradled the newborn baby boy close to her chest, an argument was brewing. → Read More
Fife and Tayside Thorntons chocolate stores to close, with jobs put at risk
Chocolate shop chain Thorntons is to close all its 61 stores, including those in Tayside and Fife, putting 603 jobs at risk. → Read More