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Donna Marie Brand, the woman convicted in 2023 for the 1996 murder of 14-year-old Caroline Glachan, has died at age 47 in custody of natural causes. The case, long unsolved, was reopened in 2019, leading to arrests and convictions of Brand, Robert OBrien, and Andrew Kelly — all teenagers at the time of the attack. Caroline’s body was found by the River Leven in Renton, Dunbartonshire. Her mother, Margaret McKeich, said her daughter could finally rest after 25 years of anguish. Brand received a minimum 17-year sentence, deemed appropriate by the judge as a “concerted crime.” Her appeals were rejected. Police and prison services are now investigating the death, marking a somber close to a decades-long tragedy that finally found justice in court.

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