Cases from Courier Country that featured on hit BBC show

Crimewatch has featured a number of prominent cases from across Tayside and Fife.

In one of the most high-profile stories – the first from Scotland to be reported on the programme – police appealed after the disappearance of pregnant Carnoustie woman Lynda Hunter in August, 1987.

After being flooded with new information, officers charged her social worker husband Andrew with murder, despite him staging an elaborate alibi that saw him drive Lynda’s car to Manchester in a blonde wig.

It was later revealed he had strangled his wife with a lead used to walk their dog Shep.

Another case – claimed to be Fife’s only unsolved homicide – featured Sandy Drummond, who was found strangled to death on a farm track near his home at Falside Farm, Boarhills, in June 1991.

The incident was recreated on Crimewatch in 1998 as police put out an appeal with previously unrevealed information including details of a car parked near Mr Drummond’s home on the day of the murder.

It also disclosed that police wanted to speak to a man spotted boarding a bus near the farm with a bloodstained handkerchief.

More recent cases, such as missing Fifer Allan Bryant Jr, have also featured on the programme.

Mr Bryant, who would now be 26, went missing after a night out with friends at Styx Nightclub in Glenrothes in November 2013.

CCTV footage showed him leaving the venue in the early hours of the morning but there has been no trace of him since, prompting the largest missing person investigation ever undertaken in Fife.

Other cases involved a break in at a jewellers on Dundee’s Union Street in 2015 and an appeal that led to the arrest of city drug dealer Dean Dickson in 2009.