A woman who tried to murder a toddler by repeatedly giving adult medication to the child was jailed today as a judge condemned her actions as "utterly wicked". Laura Docherty gave the little girl antidepressant and pain killing drugs resulting in her needing to be resuscitated and placed on a ventilator during the prolonged abuse. ‌

Docherty, 35, had denied attempting to murder the child during a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh but was unanimously found guilty of the offence by a jury. A judge told her after she was convicted of the crime that the evidence led at her trial was "deeply troubling and truly shocking". ‌

Judge Michael O'Grady KC said it appeared from parts of the evidence that Docherty had "a troubled and unhappy life" and added: "No doubt at least some of tha

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