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Dunfermline heroin dealer busted after partner caught selling £1,200 of stolen jewellery

Derek Boyce and Joanne McIntosh.
Derek Boyce and Joanne McIntosh.

A Dunfermline heroin dealer was busted after his partner was caught selling more than £1,200 worth of stolen jewellery.

Joanne McIntosh told staff at a Ramsdens branch in the town’s Kingsgate shopping centre the jewellery – including an 18 carat sovereign coin and 14 carat ring – had belonged to her gran and she was selling it to “pay for her funeral”.

Police later distributed a list of the stolen items to local jewellers.

It was recognised by a Ramsdens employee, who alerted police.

Suspicious shop staff

Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard a house in Lochgelly’s Station Road had been broken into in July last year and jewellery had been stolen.

Procurator fiscal depute Freya Anderson-Ward said a former co-accused, Craig Russell, has since pled guilty to this offence.

McIntosh flogged stolen jewellery at Kingsgate shopping centre.

The depute fiscal said: “Around 12.50pm on the same date, the accused Joanne McIntosh went into Ramsdens in the Kingsgate, Dunfermline and told a branch assistant she was looking to sell her late gran’s jewellery to pay for her funeral and produced a number of items of jewellery from a canvas bag.

“Joanne McIntosh received £1,257 in cash for these items.

“The store assistant was suspicious and saw the accused separating out the £257 from the £1,000, as if the larger sum was for something else.

“Thereafter, police distributed a list of stolen items to local jewellers.

“The branch assistant became aware of the list a couple of weeks later upon returning from leave and contacted the police, returning the items to them.”

Heroin found

Ms Anderson-Ward told the court police carried out a search of McIntosh’s home in Headwell Avenue, where she lives with partner Derek Bryce, on August 7.

A bag of brown powder was discovered in the pocket of Bryce’s shorts, along with scales and a mobile phone.

The bag was analysed and found to contain heroin with an estimated street value of £275.

Bryce’s mobile phone was also found to contain messages relating to the sale and supply of the class A drug.

The pair appeared together for sentencing at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.

Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, Fife
Bryce and McIntosh appeared together at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.

Bryce, aged 35, previously admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin between August 5 and August 7 last year.

McIntosh, aged 46, pled guilty to the reset of a quantity of jewellery which was dishonestly appropriated by theft by housebreaking.

Sheriff Craig McSherry sentenced McIntosh to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work as part of a two-year community payback order, which he said is a direct alternative to custody.

Bryce was sentenced to a community payback order with a supervision and contact requirement to last two years, again as a direct alternative to custody.

Defence lawyers for Bryce and McIntosh said both their clients had experienced difficult childhoods.