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Sarah Ward

Woman who assaulted child in drugs den spared further punishment

Marianne Gallagher leaves the High Court in Glasgow (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Archive)

A woman who was found guilty of assaulting a child in a Glasgow drugs den where seven other people carried out “harrowing” abuse was spared further punishment although a judge branded her actions “reprehensible”.

Marianne Gallagher, 40, was convicted of assault following an eight-week trial in 2023, which heard allegations of abuse which a judge said “plunges to the depths of human depravity”.

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