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A mother who killed her three-month-old daughter with heat from a hairdryer has been jailed for six years.<\/p>\n
Courtney Gartshore, 28, used the appliance to subject Dahlia-Rose Gartshore to \u201csignificant and sustained heat\u201d on the head and body, fatally injuring her.<\/p>\n
The incident took place at an address on King Street in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, on September 30 2023.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the property but Dahlia-Rose was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Gartshore had earlier been drinking while she had been in sole charge of the infant.<\/p>\n
An investigation into the child\u2019s death was launched and Gartshore, from Aberdeen, was arrested and charged in November 2023.<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
Gartshore was jailed for six years when she was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday.<\/p>\n
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 \u201crecklessly\u201d use it as a source of heat.<\/p>\n