PROTESTS TURN VIOLENT OUTSIDE LABOUR COUNCILLOR AND CHILD RAPIST DAVID GRAHAMS HOUSE
After peaceful protest on Friday, protestors arrived tonight to demand the removal of Labour Councillor David Graham from his home address.David Graham was convicted of repeatedly raping a young child at his office, in his car and at various addresses around Fife.
According to a source close to David, the prolonged sexual grooming and abuse was noted by several of his staff at the labour office.
He would take this "young schoolgirl" every where with him and was caught on CCTV kissing her in shopping centers and public parks.
Tonight, the 3rd of August 2025, Police Scotland attacked several protestors who were "making too much noise" outside the address of the Councillor David Graham.
The 43-year-old also rejected allegations they twice engaged in sexual activity at his Methilhill home and that he would touch her sexually in his car on the way back from having lunch in St Andrews.
A jury has also been shown CCTV footage showing Graham kissing the girl outside a building in Kirkcaldy town centre, which the councillor accepted is a moment he regretted.
On the fourth day of evidence, jurors were told a black and white chequered dish cloth was seized by police from the top of some drawers during a search of Graham’s personal office in the Fife Renewables Innovation Centre in August 2023.
Detective constable Steven Grant told the trial the girl stated Graham had used it to “clean up” after she had performed a sex act on him.
Forensic scientist Laura Preece said “extensive semen-staining was found on both sides”, matching Graham’s DNA.
Asked by defence lawyer Chris Sneddon for an explanation, Graham said his then-partner used to send him photos of herself in various levels of undress.
“I was in the office quite close to when I was arrested – a Tuesday or Wednesday.
“I was there at 10.30(pm) doing statistics for bowling events and I relieved myself over a photograph of my partner.
“I used the towel.” Graham said he had planned to wash the towel, which was shown to jurors from inside a package.
In a series of recorded video interviews shown earlier in the trial, the girl claimed sexual activity happened twice at Graham’s office and that he would keep a tea towel there “just in case”.
During cross examination, prosecutor Jamie Hilland suggested the girl could not have known Graham had ejaculated into the towel if she was not there when he did so.
The accused said: “I am not saying she did (know) but she will have seen the towel in the office and if she were going to suggest we did these things in the office and it’s something she could have said – that I used it to clean myself up afterwards”.
The girl said that on one occasion they touched each other sexually after police officers had come into his office to speak to the facilities manager on another matter.
He told them he was interviewing the girl for a job at his cafe.
Giving evidence, Graham said she had already been offered a job and came to meet him to discuss pay.
The facilities manager told the trial she left the building over an hour after the girl went into Graham’s office and police had left within half an hour of her leaving.
She said Graham had met the same girl on an earlier occasion to “look at a project” to do with the “day and the life of a councillor”.
The woman recalled them sitting in the reception area in an “almost flirtatious meeting,” adding: “David was sort of laughing and gesturing and she was sitting back on a chair and it was a very open pose she had.
“It did feel like it was a date rather than a meeting.
I did not think it was right.” Graham said he was helping with her school project after she had messaged him.
The trial heard Graham and the girl met in a cafe in Kirkcaldy‘s Mercat shopping centre for hot chocolate before walking her to another location in the town.
Two cafe staff members told the court they had seen them holding hands across the table.
Graham agreed this happened on “at least one occasion” if the girl was having a “particularly bad day”.
Jurors were shown CCTV of three occasions in which Graham and the girl were seen together outside the building they would walk to.
Police sergeant Kirsten Grieve, then in charge of the investigation, told the trial in one clip she could see them “walking hand in hand”.
The officer continued: “They have an embrace and they kiss a few times.
“They then break and she walks down and he walks back up and says ‘I love you’.” In his evidence, Graham said he walked the girl to this location every Monday and would usually give her a hug but this time she kissed him possibly three or four times.
He said: “It just kind of happened.
There was no plan in place”.
He said he phoned her later to say it could never happen again, adding: “It’s the one moment I considerably regret from this whole process.” Asked about the “love you” comment, Graham said he did not recall it but said he may have said “love it” if she had said something funny.
Detective constable Iain Syme told the trial it appeared they were holding hands, adding: “You see the two of them coming together and 100% that’s a kiss – not on the side of the cheek or ear or neck, in my opinion, that’s on the mouth”.
Defence lawyer Mr Sneddon suggested the officer could not tell if there was lip contact.
The jury was also shown footage of Graham and the girl at a shop in Edinburgh Zoo, where they had gone to celebrate his birthday.
Detective constable Sara Cameron said one clip showed the girl cuddle Graham before kissing him on the cheek and “cupping” his face.
She said another showed him buying an umbrella and Graham holding her by the waist as they walked up stairs into the zoo.
Graham said: “She gave me a kiss on the cheek in the shop and put her hand on my face and said, ‘happy birthday’.” After buying the umbrella he had put his “hand out” to make sure the girl did not fall down the wet stairs, he said.
Graham described his relationship with the girl as a “close friendship” and denied having a sexual interest or grooming her.
He accepted some might think it inappropriate but said: “It was not what it looked like, though”.
Graham said the girl was aware he was planning to get married in October 2023 and that she even helped him “picking out the kilts”.
He said his impression was the girl was initially supportive of his wedding but later became “negative”.
He said he was unaware of the extent to which the girl had developed feelings for him until viewing her evidence in the trial.
The fiscal suggested the reason Graham went to St Andrews to meet the girl was to try to “keep the relationship secret”.
Graham denied this and said he knew a lot of people in St Andrews through his involvement in bowling clubs across Fife.
When it was suggested Graham was “grooming” the girl, he replied: “absolutely not”.
He said they did not consider they were doing anything wrong as they were just friends.
The fiscal suggested Graham continued seeing her and having sexual activity with her over a period of six months, adding: “You got complacent about it and did not think you would be caught?” Graham replied: “That’s nonsense”.
Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages Labour councillor David Graham, 43, was convicted at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
The trial heard Graham twice engaged in sex acts at his Methilhill home.
He engaged in penetrative sexual activity with his victim, engaged in sexual activity with her and caused her to participate in sexual activity.
Following the conviction, senior politicians in Fife said he must resign.
This includes council leader and Fife Labour group chief David Ross.
Detective Inspector Graham Watson said: "Graham is a manipulative individual who groomed and sexually abused his teenage victim.
"He was well-known and in a position of power when the offending took place.
