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19/04/2007
Pair jailed for 17 years for torture of pregnant teen
A man and woman who tortured a pregnant teenager with learning difficulties have been jailed for a total of 17 years.
Lee Holt, 27, and Donna O'Neill, 21, both from Aberdeen, lured nineteen-year-old Tammy McGregor - who had a mental age of 12 - to a flat in the city where she was tortured for two-and-a-half hours.
Edinburgh High Court heard how Miss McGregor was stripped and tied up before being beaten with a metal bar.
She also had cigarettes stubbed out on her body, had her Achilles tendons cut and hot, salted water poured on her wounds.
Miss McGregor was found bound, gagged and covered in blood after a neighbour contacted police.
She was confined to a wheelchair for three months as a result of her injuries and is now permanently disfigured.
Lord Bracadale said that Miss McGregor had been subjected to a "sustained and prolonged experience of torture".
At sentencing on Wednesday, Holt was sentenced to nine years in prison, while O'Neill was sentenced to eight years.
(KMcA/JM)
Lee Holt, 27, and Donna O'Neill, 21, both from Aberdeen, lured nineteen-year-old Tammy McGregor - who had a mental age of 12 - to a flat in the city where she was tortured for two-and-a-half hours.
Edinburgh High Court heard how Miss McGregor was stripped and tied up before being beaten with a metal bar.
She also had cigarettes stubbed out on her body, had her Achilles tendons cut and hot, salted water poured on her wounds.
Miss McGregor was found bound, gagged and covered in blood after a neighbour contacted police.
She was confined to a wheelchair for three months as a result of her injuries and is now permanently disfigured.
Lord Bracadale said that Miss McGregor had been subjected to a "sustained and prolonged experience of torture".
At sentencing on Wednesday, Holt was sentenced to nine years in prison, while O'Neill was sentenced to eight years.
(KMcA/JM)
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