Man detained in Fife death probe

Police inquiries continue and houses cordoned off after fatality in Glenrothes

A man died in suspicious circumstances at a house in Glenrothes on Saturday.

Police and paramedics were called to the scene in Greenlaw Crescent at around 10am and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Another man has been held in connection with the death.

Two houses in the street, in the town’s Macedonia precinct, remained cordoned off yesterday.

A tent had also been erected at the front door of one of the houses, understood to be a scatter flat, as an investigation by Police Scotland continued.

A spokeswoman for the force said: “Police in Fife are investigating following the death of a man at an address in Greenlaw Crescent, Glenrothes.

“The death was reported to police around 10am on Saturday September 9.

“Officers along with the Scottish Ambulance Service attended the address. However, the man was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.

“Inquiries are ongoing into the death, which is being treated as suspicious.

“A man has been detained in connection with this incident.”

The identity of the deceased is yet to be released.

Neighbours told how police broke down the door of one of the houses on Saturday morning.

One said: “About 10am the police came and they were chapping at the door. When I came back home the door had been knocked in.”

Neighbours also told how forensics officers had been coming and going from at least one of the houses.

It was in a property in the same street that Ewan Dow, 25, threatened victim Daniel Turner before stabbing him 171 times in the town’s Riverside Park.

Dow was jailed for life in October 2013.