Mother guilty over baby’s hairdryer burns death

A mother has been found guilty of killing her young daughter over the heat of a hairdryer.

Courtney Gartshore, 28, denied the deliberate murder of her three-month-old daughter Dahlia-Rose, who was in her care in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, in September 2023.

The jury took just over an hour to decide guilty on the seventh day of the trial.

Gartshore, who sobbed as he was taken to the cells, will be sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on August 14.

He was found guilty of culpably and recklessly causing Dahlia-Rose to be exposed to heat from the device while the child was in her sole care.

The charge stated that Dahlia-Rose’s injuries were so severe that she died as a result.

Gartshore had allegedly consumed alcohol before.

Other charges he initially faced were dropped by the Crown.