The untimely death of a Lanarkshire teenager will now be examined during a Fatal Accident Inquiry.
Robyn Goldie was found dead at her home in the Pather area of Wishaw five years ago at the age of just 13.
Her mother was later put behind bars for the neglect of Robyn.
The Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, has now ordered a Fatal Accident Inquiry after ruling the circumstances of her death in July 2018 gave rise to ‘serious public concern’.
A preliminary hearing will take place at Hamilton Sheriff Court on July 3 while the full inquiry will get underway at a later date.
Katrina Parkes, head of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal’s (COPFS) Scottish Fatalities Investigation Unit, said: “The Lord Advocate considers that the death of Robyn Goldie occurred in circumstances giving rise to significant public concern and as such a discretionary Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) should be held.
“An FAI will allow a full public airing of all the available evidence at which interested parties will be represented.
“The evidence will be tested in a public setting and be the subject of an independent judicial determination.”
The Sheriff will issue a determination following the consideration of all the evidence.
The determination will set out when and where the death occurred, when and where any accident resulting in the death occurred, the cause of death, accident and any precautions which could have reasonably been taken.
Robyn’s mum Sharon Goldie was jailed for three and a half years after admitting wilfully ill-treating and neglecting her child.
Jailing her back in 2020, Lord Beckett told Goldie at the High Court in Edinburgh: “When your daughter became ill and was repeatedly trying to get to hospital you were substantially motivated by protecting yourself from closer scrutiny by the authorities which would have inevitably followed hospital admission.
“Yours was a crime involving considerable cruelty over a long period.”
Goldie admitted an offence under Children and Young Persons legislation of wilfully ill treating and neglecting Robyn between July 12 2017 and July 26 in 2018 when her daughter died after developing peritonitis due to a perforated stomach ulcer.
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