A woman who kept a toddler in a cage claims she had to flee her home after her partner in crime turned on her.
Serial child abuser Claire Boyle says she was forced to move to escape partner Timothy Johnstone, after they were spared jail for child neglect. Boyle, 36, made the claims through defence solicitor Brian Holliman during a hearing at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court.
Boyle was spared jail in 2021 for neglecting a four-year-old so badly doctors feared he had blood cancer or a blood clotting disorder, Daily Record reports.