Susan Turner killers may never be freed as judge hands down life sentences

Susan Turner’s murderers may never be freed after a judge handed the pair life sentences at High Court in Glasgow today.

Michelle Ramage, 43, and Ryan Hill, 27, have been jailed for a total of at least 42 years after they subjected Susan to horrific ordeal - inflicting more than 130 injuries.

Jealous Ramage had been raging after discovering 41-year-old had been texting her 51-year-old lover Jason Bell.

Susan was horrifically set upon at Bell's flat in Ayr including being stripped, choked, stabbed with scissors, disfigured and bludgeoned with various weapons.

Ramage was jailed for a minimum 22 years after she had earlier pleaded guilty to the March 2023 murder.

Hill was locked up for at least 20 years after jurors found him guilty of the same charge.

Lord Mulholland told the duo: "You have both been convicted of the murder of a defenceless woman, who posed no threat to either of you.

"As she was being subjected to the homicidal assault, she begged you to let her go.

"You ignored her pleas and subjected her to a brutal and cowardly assault.

"It was akin to torture clearly designed to demean and disfigure her as a woman."

The killing by the pair - both much bigger than Susan - included her being strangled with a dressing gown cord, her hair chopped and ripped out as well as being hit with mugs, a machete, a bat, golf club, chain and radio.

She was also "scored" with a blade over her body.

Susan had three children aged between nine and 23.

The prosecutor said Ramage had 37 previous convictions including a five-year jail-term for abduction and serious assault in 2010.

Hill meantime had 11 convictions with a number also for violence. He was on bail at the time for assault, which he was later locked up for.

Jurors deleted from the charge that he had been involved the machete or used the cord to choke Susan.

Tony Lenehan KC, defending Ramage, today/yesterday said she was someone who had been "brutalised" from previous relationship, but was "a woman capable herself of brutality".

Hill's KC Shelagh McCall said he had a troubled childhood and that in 2021 the death of his grandmother - who brought him up - had affected him causing him to "spiral into alcohol addiction".

Bell had also faced the murder charge, but he was acquitted by jurors at the trial.

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