Dahlia-Rose was found with severe burn injuries
A mother who killed her baby daughter by burning her with a hairdryer has been jailed for six years.
Courtney Gartshore, 28, used the appliance to subject three-month-old Dahlia-Rose to "significant and sustained heat" on her head and body.
Emergency services were called to the scene at a property in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, in September 2023, but the child had died.
Gartshore was convicted of culpable homicide – the closest equivalent to manslaughter in Scots Law – following a trial at the High Court in Aberdeen in July.
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Sentencing Gartshore at the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Simon Collins KC told her, external she had inflicted "severe and disfiguring" burns on her daughter.
He said: "Given Dahlia-Rose's very young age, and the horrifying way that she died, this is a uniquely disturbing and distressing case.
"But it is tragic as well as terrible. And that is because the evidence suggested that the accused loved Dahlia-Rose, yet will have to live the rest of her life with the knowledge that she was responsible for her death."
Mother guilty over baby's hairdryer burns death
Gartshore appeared via videolink at the 25-minute hearing, during which she sobbed and wiped away tears.
The judge said the baby's death was not the culmination of repeated instances of neglect or abuse over a period of weeks or months.
But he told the first offender she was responsible for a "gross aberration" from what was a "mostly satisfactory" standard of care.
Judge Collins also said the Crown's expert position was that Dahlia-Rose died from hyperthermia and heat stroke, rather than burns.
Mother jailed for killing baby by burning her with a hairdryer
