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.
