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Donna Marie Brand, convicted in 2024 for her role in the brutal 1996 murder of 14-year-old Caroline Glachan — a crime that shocked Scotland and left a void no sentence could fill — has died in custody at HMP & YOI Stirling. Brand, alongside Robert O’Brien and Andrew Kelly, was found guilty of assaulting, throwing projectiles at, and ultimately drowning Caroline near the River Leven — an attack witnessed by two children. Though she didn’t deliver the fatal blows, Brand was held responsible for leaving Caroline alive in the river and participating in the plan. Sentenced to life with a minimum of 17 years, Brand’s death comes nearly 30 years after the crime, as Caroline’s mother grieves the loss her daughter’s killers could never undo. A fatal accident inquiry is now expected.

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