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A mother who killed her three-month-old daughter with heat from a hairdryer has been jailed for six years.
Courtney Gartshore, 28, used the appliance to subject Dahlia-Rose Gartshore to “significant and sustained heat” on the head and body, fatally injuring her.
The incident took place at an address on King Street in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, on September 30 2023.
Emergency services were called to the property but Dahlia-Rose was pronounced dead at the scene.
Gartshore had earlier been drinking while she had been in sole charge of the infant.
An investigation into the child’s death was launched and Gartshore, from Aberdeen, was arrested and charged in November 2023.
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She was convicted of the culpable homicide of her daughter following a trial at the High Court in Aberdeen in July.
Gartshore was jailed for six years when she was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday.
Her defence lawyer, Murray Macara, said he could not provide a reasonable or compelling explanation for why she used the hairdryer but speculated that the baby was cold and that she may have attempted to “recklessly” use it as a source of heat.