A mother has been found guilty of killing her baby daughter due to heat from a hairdryer.

Courtney Gartshore, 28, denied culpable homicide of her three-month-old daughter Dahlia-Rose who was in her care in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, in September 2023.

The jury took just over an hour to return a guilty verdict on the seventh day of the trial.

Gartshore, who sobbed as she was led to the cells, will be sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on 14 August.

She was found guilty of of culpably and recklessly causing Dahlia-Rose to be subjected to heat from the appliance while the child was in her sole care.

The charge stated that Dahlia-Rose’s injuries were so severe that she died as a result.

It was claimed Gartshore had consumed alcohol beforehand.

Other charges she had originally faced were dropped by the Crown.