Police are investigating the sudden death of a 22-year-old man at a home in Inverness.
23.02.2023 - 15:53 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A man has admitted suffocating a four-year-old girl and assaulting her to the danger of her life. The child suffered two broken arms and extensive bruising in the attack by Sean Lochrie in a flat in Paisley last year.
The High Court in Glasgow heard “significant force” would have been needed to inflict such injuries on the child, who cannot be identified for legal reasons. When he appeared at the court on Thursday, Lochrie, 33, pleaded guilty to compressing the child’s face and neck with his hands or by some other unknown means, suffocating her and restricting her breathing.
He admitted assaulting her to her severe injury and to the danger of her life by seizing her, throwing her about, striking her on the head and body or inflicting blunt force trauma to those areas by unknown means on October 28 and 29, 2022. The court heard Lochrie phoned police at around 3.15am on October 29 to report that he had just woken up and a female he did not know was lying on the floor.
Prosecutor Lorraine Glancy KC said: “When the police constable asked the accused to wake up the female so he could speak to her, in the background officers could hear a sound of a young female crying as if in pain.” Officers were sent to investigate, arriving at 3.25am, and said Lochrie appeared to be under the influence of some unknown substance.
They found the child in the bedroom of the property, with her arm in an unnatural position under her body. Ms Glancy said: “Officers saw a young female child lying naked on the floor, she was lying on her side with her face towards the door.
“She was naked apart from her purple T-shirt, which was pulled up around the neck. She was shaking uncontrollably and tearful.”
The child was taken to hospital by ambulance.
Police are investigating the sudden death of a 22-year-old man at a home in Inverness.
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