Woman found man’s body in his home

A woman has told a murder trial how she discovered the body of a man hours after seeing him alive looking “very chilled” and “chuffed” during a social gathering.

Louise Anderson, 42, said she phoned for the police after finding Christopher Cowie lying on the floor of his home in Golfdrum Street, Dunfermline, in October 2019.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard Ms Anderson say that, hours earlier, she had visited Mr Cowie at the property and that he looked “very chilled” and “relaxed”.

The witness, also of Dunfermline, told jurors that when she returned hours later, Mr Cowie was lying dead on the floor.

Yesterday, Ms Anderson told the court of how she had spent the day before Mr Cowie’s death visiting her mum in Crail.

She then visited a friend in nearby Pittenweem before going to visit Mr Cowie in the early hours of the morning.

She was giving evidence yesterday on the second day of proceedings against Jason Mooney, 27, and Lynn Kelly, 35.

The two, also of Dunfermline, deny murdering Mr Cowie on October 15 2019 among a total of seven charges to which pleas of not guilty have been lodged.

These include being concerned in the supply of cocaine and heroin between October 13 and 15 2019, at various locations in Dunfermline, and stealing items from Mr Cowie’s property on October 15 2019, while Mooney has been charged with possessing a “prohibited weapon” on October 18 2019, at the James Bank Hostel in Dunfermline, without having a firearms certificate.

The trial, before judge Lord Beckett, continues.