29-05-2025
Man guilty of Keshia Donaghy murder must serve 24 years
A man who beat a woman to death in her own home in Moray has been jailed for a minimum of 24 Lucretia Donaghy, 32, who was known as Keshia, was found dead at her home in Anderson Drive, Elgin, in November Grant, 43, had denied assaulting and murdered her by repeatedly striking her on the head and a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh found him guilty of murder, where Lord Scott jailed him for life.
The judge said: "The attack was exceptionally savage, frenzied and brutal."He said that in a victim impact statement Keshia's mother said her heart was broken following the loss of her only daughter.
Keshia died after sustaining multiple blunt force head injuries and was found lying face down in a bedroom.A neighbour had heard sounds of an argument coming from the downstairs flat and the victim calling out: "No, no, no."After the murder, Grant turned up drunk at a woman's address and gave her money to source cocaine. She returned to the house and told him she had learned that Keshia was cried but went on to claim the information was wrong and that police activity at her home was a drugs raid.
'Unarmed and defenceless'
Grant denied murder and claimed: "I never laid a finger on her."He told the trial that the killing was "disgusting" and "horrible" and he was devastated by the Scott ordered that Grant must serve a minimum prison term of 24 years before he is eligible to seek release on parole, because of the "exceptionally brutal nature of the murder" and the killer's extensive record for violent judge said he killed an "unarmed and defenceless" Scott said: "The reasons for this brutal murder remain unknown, but appear almost certainly to have been related to money."
