A damning probe by police watchdogs has concluded that officers failed to act on a warning that could have saved the life of a murdered East Kilbride woman.
Officers admitted that they failed to tell Louise Aitchison about partner Daryll Paterson’s history of violence against women for over a month before he brutally murdered her at the home they shared on April 28, 2020.
Paterson admitted killing the 33-year-old dental nurse by strangling her and then slashing her throat. The 37-year-old was convicted of her murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison in January of 2021.
