LISTEN: Paige Doherty's killer caged for 'frenzied knife attack'
John Leathem has been jailed for at least 27 years for the murder of 15-year-old Paige Doherty.
John Leathem has been jailed for at least 27 years for the murder of 15-year-old Paige Doherty.
Shiona McCallum reports:
John Leathem, 32, stabbed the teenager 61 times and inflicted a total of more than 140 injuries when she stopped at his Delicious Deli in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, on March 19.
Despite claims he was in "a panic'', he cleaned up his crime and dumped her body in bushes two days later. The South Court at the High Court in Glasgow was packed with Paige's family and friends as the married father-of-two was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 27 years.
Leathem had admitted her murder at an earlier hearing and there were shouts of "scum'' and "monster'' as he was led away to the cells.
Judge Lady Rae told the court the killing was truly reprehensible and impossible to comprehend''.
Paige's mother Pamela Munro said after the hearing that there was "no sentence high enough'' to justify the crime.