The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Tragic woman’s brother remanded
COURT: Jordan Johnstone charged over fraud claims
Tragic Annalise Johnstone’s brother has been remanded after being accused of carrying out a bogus workman fraud close to where her body was found.
Jordan Johnstone appeared in court on charges of obtaining cash by fraud from two people.
Prosecutors say between April 14 and April 18, at an address on Main Road, Aberuthven, the 24-year old from Irvine obtained £600 by agreeing to carry out work and failing to do so.
He is also accused of carrying out a similar fraud at an address in Dundee in 2014 to get a further £55. He made no plea and was remanded in custody pending further inquiries.
His sister, Annalise, was found dead at the roadside between Auchterarder and Dunning on May 10.
Police say the 22-year-old’s death is being treated as suspicious and their investigation currently centres on 11 different locations across Tayside.
The brother of a woman whose “suspicious” death is being probed by police has been remanded after being accused of two bogus workman frauds.
Annalise Johnstone was found dead at the side of a rural road between Auchterarder and Dunning on May 10, more than 80 miles from her Ayrshire home.
Her death is being treated as “suspicious” by police, who have launched a major inquiry into her death.
Her brother, Jordan Johnstone appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court accused of carrying out a bogus workman scam at a cottage around two miles from where Annalise’s body was found around three weeks before she died.
It is alleged that between April 14 and April 18 this year at an address in Main Road, Aberuthven, he pretended to Susan Rodrigues that he was a bona fide workman, received payment to carry out agreed work and failed to complete it, thus obtaining £600 by fraud.
A second charge alleges that between April 14 and April 18 2014 at an address in Rodd Road Dundee he carried out a similar fraud on Lindsey Scott and obtained £55 by fraud.
Johnstone, 24, of Redburn Travelling Persons Site, Kilwinning Road, Irvine, Ayrshire, made a brief appearance in private on petition before Sheriff John Rafferty. Represented by solicitor Amy Fox, he made no plea or declaration.
Johnstone was fully committed for trial on the two charges and remanded in custody meantime.
His court appearance came in the same week police taped off the Maggie Wall’s monument near Dunning, close to the location of where Annalise’s body was found.
Moors Murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady were photographed next to the monument in 1965 at the height of their killing spree.
It is understood the memorial is one of at least 11 locations now being investigated by police as part of the probe.
Annalise, 22, from Ardrossan, Ayrshire, was found dead in a wooded area by the B8062 Auchterarder to Dunning road on Thursday May 10.
She had left her Ayrshire home in a silver Ford Galaxy the previous day and was last seen in Auchterarder around 10pm that night.
That car was later traced on the driveway of a home in Inchture.
Last week Detective Superintendent James Smith, of Police Scotland’s major investigations team, said police were treating her death as suspicious and appealed for information about her movements before her body was found.
He said police could not rule out foul play and appealed for help tracing her missing mobile phone, purse and bag containing medication.