A mum jailed for killing her baby in Aberdeenshire has failed in a bid to stop herself from being extradited to Lithuania to serve time for murdering another child.

Lawyers for Ineta Gavenaite asked judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh to overturn a decision made by a sheriff to send her back to the eastern European state.

Gavenaite - who was formerly called Dzinguviene - was given an eight and a half year jail term in June 2023 after pleading guilty to a charge of being responsible for the culpable homicide of her child Paulius in Fraserburgh in April 2010.

She smothered the child with clingfilm the day after she gave birth to him.

Gavenaite was originally convicted of murder in 2011. But appeal judges quashed the conviction after it emerged she was suffering from

See Full Page