You have every reason to reserve judgement because while I can assure you I didn't exaggerate or made up anything, I was repeating what I was told. So there is room for error here, though I found this lady very believable with the backstory and all the details she gave me (which I didn't include in the original post because there were just too many).
One thing that I might got wrong though is the newspaper's name. She told me that it's the Telegraph so I assumed the nation-wide one, but later I found out that there is also the Evening Telegraph local newspaper in Dundee. At this point I don't know which is the one that will cover the story, but I suppose it's the local one unfortunately. Still good that this gets some coverage, but not as big as I hoped it to be.