A 28-year-old mother, Courtney Gartshore, is sentenced to six years in jail after a court finds she killed her three-month-old daughter by causing burns with a hairdryer. Reports say the child died as a result of the heat applied to her.
The cases described in multiple outlets link the offence to events at an address in Peterhead in September 2023. Sky News and the Daily Mail report the sentence as six years at the High Court in Edinburgh. Other coverage adds details about the prosecution case, including that the judge describes the conduct as a gross breach of a parent’s basic duty and references “significant and sustained heat” to the child’s head and body. Several reports also note that Gartshore had been drinking on the day of the killing, and that the court hears she had been partying beforehand.
While outlets vary in emphasis—some focus on the judge’s remarks, others on the drinking and the background—they broadly agree on the essential facts: the hairdryer heat caused fatal burns and the court imposes a six-year custodial sentence.
