The trial of three people accused of the 1996 murder of 14-year-old Caroline Glachan is underway in the High Court in Glasgow. Prosecutors have urged the jury to convict the three accused of what they have described as a “brutal” attack that left Glachan to drown in the River Leven in Renton, West Dunbartonshire.
Robert O’Brien, who was 18 at the time of Caroline’s death, was in a relationship with her and is accused of attacking her with a blunt instrument and causing her to die by drowning. His co-accused, Andrew Kelly and Donna Marie Brand, are charged with acting “in concert” with O’Brien in plotting to harm Caroline but deny plotting to kill her.
The jury has been told that O’Brien, Kelly, and Brand were all arrested in November 2021, and each has lodged a special defense of alibi. In closing speeches, the prosecutor said that the evidence presented in the two-week trial offers “a compelling and convincing case”.
While O’Brien’s lawyer has suggested that the case took so long t
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