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A 73-year-old Dunfermline charity shop volunteer quizzed a 14-year-old boy about his penis size and sexual history.

William Fraser began the sexual conversation with his victim at The Salvation Army in High Street on November 9 last year.

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A “spiritual” Fife tearoom boss convicted of sexually assaulting six women at his Leven cafes has been re-sentenced.

Alistair Burns targeted his victims at the Trudor Tearoom or Daunder In – doors apart in Forth Street – during a period spanning January 2019 to October 2023.

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A St Andrews paedophile who shared sick child abuse clips with other perverts was thwarted by a police dog when he tried to hide his phone in his grandfather’s bedroom.

Convicted sex offender Arron Kyle was brought from HMP Perth to Dundee Sheriff Court to admit taking or making and distributing the material.

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A former coach at St Andrews Rifle Club has been placed on the sex offenders register after being found guilty of touching female students.

Volunteer Patrick Jess was found guilty of a string of sexual assaults at the Fife shooting club.

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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.

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A Fife paedophile is back behind bars after he flouted a 99-year internet ban by trying to arrange the sexual abuse of a pre-pubescent child.

Dangerous predator Jon Walker exchanged horrific messages with a depraved mother online, despite being banned from using social media until the 22nd century.

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A man who turned up at a Fife MSP’s office with a burning paint tray before threatening him has been jailed for 22 months.

Peter Batten went to David Torrance’s constituency office in Kirkcaldy’s Kirk Wynd with the flaming material and tried to open the door just minutes before the MSP returned having gone out to buy printer paper.

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A Fife teacher who stroked a pupils arm and asked her to form a relationship with him in an egregious abuse of trust has been jailed.

Lee Dempsey was a teacher at a high school in Glenrothes when he made sexual contact with the girl of upper secondary school age at his then-home in the towns Fleming Place.

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A Fife football coach sent videos of himself performing a sex act, along with sexualised messages, to someone he thought was a child.

James Devine, at the time a senior figure at the John Thomson Football Academy in Cardenden, was unaware he was chatting online to an adult member of a paedophile hunter group.

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A 30-year-old man has jailed for eight years at the High Court in Edinburgh on Wednesday, 11 December, 2024, after being convicted of serious sexual offences in Fife.

Darren Glass’ crimes included rape and sexual communications against a woman and a teenage girl between September, 2020 and June, 2022.

Detective Constable Steven Grant said: “Glass is a dangerous individual who now faces the consequences of his despicable actions.

"I would like to commend his victims for their strength in coming forward during the investigation. Their information was essential in helping us build the case against him and our thoughts remain with them. I hope this outcome provides them with some sense of closure.

“If anyone has been a victim of a sexual crime, please report it. We have detectives dedicated to investigating such offences. You can be assured that you will be fully supported by officers and our partner agencies."

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A Fife pensioner upskirted six teenage girls in a Fife Tesco in a single day.

Bruce Clark, 77, of Limekilns, appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court to plead guilty to five voyeurism offences  – one involving two girls – which took place at the Winterthur Lane store in Dunfermline on November 5 this year.

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A bus passenger caught a man performing a sex act behind her between Lochgelly and Cowdenbeath.

Jordon Morris, 24, made the woman “jump out of her seat” when she turned to see him with his trousers pulled down.

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A predator who engaged in a filthy online chat with someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl had repeatedly told her she was “too young”.

Married Kevin Wood, 43, was snared by members of an online paedophile hunting group.

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A creepy Fife bricklayer stashed “numerous” secret intimate photos of his former partner that she did not know he’d taken.

Self-employed Steven Brown, of Ellisland Avenue in Kirkcaldy, secretly snapped pictures of his long-term partner while she was asleep, getting changed and bending over to pick up things.

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A man has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted of domestic abuse and sexual offences in the Fife and Perthshire areas.

Jonathan Rhind, aged 29, committed these crimes between February 2020 and January 2022.

He was found guilty of two charges following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow and returned for sentencing today, Wednesday, 23 October, 2024.