12-08-2025
Moment tattooed thug arrested at work after battering mum to death in her bed
Kiesha Donaghy was battered to death with what is thought to be a claw hammer in her home in Elgin.
The moment a tattooed thug is arrested for the slaughtering of a mum in her own bed has been captured.
Kiesha Donaghy, 32, was discovered battered to death with what is thought to be a claw hammer in her home on Anderson Drive in Elgin at 7.20pm on November 16, 2023.
A new BBC documentary series, Murder Case: Who Killed Kiesha, has revealed detectives looking for her killer snaring her friend Own Grant at his Elgin-based workplace.
Grant, 43, is caught saying: 'You've got to do what you've got to do but I've not done nothing.'
Before he is taken away in handcuffs, he adds: 'What about my job?'
The revealing programme has disclosed that investigators initially suspected the mother-of-two had been murdered by drug dealers as loved-ones told of how she was being chased for a drug debt worth around £20,000.
A Scouse enforcer labelled Joe Bloggs warned Kiesha that his 'Two Amigos' would be visiting her and "They will not meet you anywhere else. It will be in your house and you will be alone', revealed in messages on the show.
Kiesha's aunt Rachel said: 'When we found she had been murdered I thought to myself this is Joe Bloggs, this is his amigos.'
However, the show noted that Grant carried out the killing to steal the £770 that she had stashed in a wardrobe - gathered to pay Joe Bloggs.
CCTV showed Grant, who claimed he was in bed, on the night in which Keisha died and not the Two Amigos.
More footage showed him flaunting a large amount of money during the time he was struggling to pay his rent.
Although a murder weapon was never recovered, CCTV showed Grant dumping something in a bin outside a shop.
Police arrested Grant at his work after a bloody handprint in Kiesha's home was identified as his.
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."
Grant was convicted in May and jailed for 24 years.
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."
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