Latest Offenders Fife

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A 61-year-old man has been jailed for six years after being convicted of non-recent sexual offending.

Paul Proctor was sentenced to six years, backdated to February 2025, at the High Court in Edinburgh on Wednesday, 14 May, 2025.

He carried out the offending towards a female child in Fife in 1995.

He was reported to police in October 2020 and an investigation was launched. He was arrested in May 2021 and convicted at the High Court in Edinburgh on Thursday, 13 February, 2025.

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A Fife nurse blamed Filipino “culture” for a video that showed him indecently touching a young child.

Mark Rebustes was snared with dozens of images and files of child abuse on a laptop he brought to Fife from the Philippines.

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An “obsessed” Lochgelly man who sent unwanted Snapchat videos of his penis to a woman from an alias account later gave away his true identity.

A trial heard Craig Wishart repeatedly told his victim he wanted to “worship” her and said she loved the fact he had a “c*** cage on”.

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A convicted paedophile plucked a young girl’s image from the internet then sent it to a woman, claiming it was his daughter and asking if she wanted him to perform a sex act on the child.

Archibald Smith’s sick move came shortly after he sent a video of himself masturbating to the woman.

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A Fife man blindfolded an eight-year-old girl for a “tasting game” which turned into a sexual assault.

James Ross pretended it would be harmless fun with the girl trying to name household items without seeing them.

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A child sex fiend from Perth who calls himself Dangerous Dave has been caught in a global grooming incident.

Serial sex offender David Greig used the Telegram app to send graphic selfies to a 13-year-old boy on the other side of the world.

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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.