A man has been charged in connection with a fatal fire that killed a member of a notorious Fife family in May 1998.
Gordon Graham was 43 when he died in the Fraserburgh blaze and at that time had become known for having multiple convictions and being part of a “family from hell”.
Police launched a review of the case in 2009 after receiving new information, but no one was charged.
A 42-year-old man is expected to appear at Peterhead Sheriff Court today.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: “A 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal fire on May 3 1998, which claimed the life of Gordon Graham.
“The man is due to appear at Peterhead Sheriff Court on Thursday February 4.”
Graham was branded part of the “family from hell” in 1997 amid allegations he terrorised Glenrothes, earning the Alexander Road area the nickname Little Bosnia.
He was head of a notorious seven-strong family and had more than 60 convictions at that time.
A lengthy court battle saw the family evicted by the former Glenrothes Development Corporation in 1995, with some neighbours giving evidence against them.
The family was put out of the house at 140 Alexander Road with Graham moving to Fraserburgh.
Fears of an incident involving sheriff’s officers and the Graham family proved unfounded when they were evicted six days earlier than expected.
It had been thought that scenes witnessed at an earlier eviction attempt would be repeated.
On that occasion the family barricaded the front door to the house with an abandoned car while teenagers and children inside the house showered sheriff’s officers with water and various objects.
Following their eviction the Grahams threatened to return to the area to rent a private house after Fife Council’s public assurance that they would be “highly unlikely to be in any position to rehouse this family”.
Graham was buried in a Markinch grave in June 1998.
His body had been brought south after his death in Fraserburgh.
The burial followed a private service at the home of Mr Graham’s mother Isabel, in Auchmuty Drive.
The cortege made its way from Auchmuty Drive, where about 70 mourners crowded the garden and pavement, to St Drostan’s cemetery in Markinch.