Balbeggie

Illegal drugs with a street value of more than £4,000 were found in a man's house, Perth Sheriff Court heard. Depute fiscal Jill Drummond said that Perth and Kinross Council contacted the police to visit an address due to a water leak. She said: “At 8 ...

Balbeggie. A Bulgarian heroin addict has been found guilty of using a frying pan to murder a jeweller who became "like a father" to him, The Daily Express reported. Nikola Zhulev bludgeoned Alan Gardner to death before cocooning his victim's body in a ...

He was staying at Mr Gardner's home at 4 Croft Park, Balbeggie, when he made the sinister searches in the early hours of the morning. Police found Mr Gardner's body on Friday 24 April in bed with a wound on his forehead imprinted with the pattern from ...

Nikola Zhulev bludgeoned Perthshire jeweller Alan Gardner to death with a heavy frying pan and stole from him, the High Court at Livingston heard. He then cocooned the body in a duvet in Mr Gardner's Balbeggie bungalow, bought a spade from Homebase ...

The jury heard during the trial that Mr Gardner, who Zhulev described as "like a father" to him, was found dead at his Balbeggie home on 24 April last year. The 49-year-old freelance jeweller had a head wound imprinted with the pattern from the base of ...

He was formally acquitted at the High Court in Livingston of stealing Mr Gardner's Toyota 4x4 and valuables from his home in Balbeggie. Closing speeches in Mr Zhulev's trial will be made today. Prosecutors also withdrew a charge alleging that Mr Zhulev ...