Watch the moment fiend is arrested at work for battering Scots mum to death in her bed
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INCREDIBLE new footage shows a tattooed brute being nicked for slaughtering a mum in her own bed.
Kiesha Donaghy, 32, was battered to death with what is thought to be a claw hammer.
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Owen Grant is led out of his workplace in handcuffs after being arrested for murdering Kiesha Donaghy
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Kiesha Donaghy was battered to death in her own bed in a horror attack
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Grant was caged for at least 24 years for the brutal murder
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A new BBC documentary looks at the probe into Kiesha's death
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BBC documentary series Murder Case shows detectives on the trail of her killer.
They eventually snare her pal Owen Grant and swoop on him at work in Elgin, Moray.
Grant, 43, says: 'You've got to do what you've got to do but I've not done nothing.'
Just before he's led away in handcuffs, he asks: 'What about my job?'
Mother-of-two Kiesha was found dead in her home in Elgin in November 2023.
The new show reveals detectives initially feared she'd been murdered by drug dealers.
Friends and relatives told cops she was being chased for a drug debt of up to £20,000.
Messages from a Scouse enforcer who called himself Joe Bloggs warned her his 'Two Amigos' would be visiting her to get his cash.
One said: 'They will not meet you anywhere else. It will be in your house and you will be alone.'
Kiesha's aunt Rachel revealed: 'When we found she had been murdered I thought to myself this is Joe Bloggs, this is his amigos.'
But Murder Case reveals that she was killed by evil Grant so he could steal the cash she set aside to pay off Joe Bloggs.
Cops trawled CCTV looking for footage of the Two Amigos in Elgin the night Keisha died.
There was no sign of them but they did spot Grant who claimed he was in bed.
Other footage they uncovered show him flaunting a wad of cash when he was skint and struggling to pay his rent.
While a clip outside a local shop caught him dumping something in a bin. The murder weapon has never been recovered.
A bloody handprint in Kiesha's home was eventually identified as Grant's and he was named as a suspect.
A squad of cops swooped on him at his workplace a fortnight after she was murdered.
Detective Inspector William Grant said: 'He would have known that he was starting to become of significant interest to the police.
"This is a man that's committed a violent murder in a relatively low crime area of Scotland, We can't allow him to be walking the streets."
The documentary reveals Grant refused to answer questions when he was grilled about Kiesha's murder.
He eventually went on trial and was convicted in May. He'll be caged for at least 24 years.
Jurors were told he butchered Kiesha to get his hands on £770 that she had stashed in a wardrobe and was intended for Joe Bloggs.
Kiesha's aunt Rachel said: 'I wish he had never been in Elgin and I wish he had never met Kiesha.
'I can't believe he killed her for the money, It's a disgusting thing to do.
"If he asked her for money she would have given it to him. It was just that he knew she had that money and he wanted it to feed his habit."
'He's in jail now but we've got to carry on. It's never going to be the same without her."
Murder Case: Who Killed Kiesha is now available on Iplayer.
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