Friends of murdered Scottish teenager Paige Doherty have raised more than £12,000 for her family through two crowdfunding campaigns.
Ms Doherty, 15, was last seen on Saturday morning. Her body was found on Monday in a wooded area on the outskirts of Clydebank, a town near Glasgow. A police inquiry is underway.
“Woke up this morning to almost £10,000 between the two GoFundMe pages set up by Lynsay and Gail. All that donated by strangers... every one of you guys are absolutely amazing,” said a post on the Help Find Paige Facebook page.
Lynsay Smith set up a fundraising page which has raised over £6,000 in one day. "All the money raised is to help Pamela [Paige’s] mum and Andrew her step dad with any funeral arrangements and anything else to ease the pain that they are going through at this time,” she wrote.
A similar campaign set up by Gail Duncan has also raised more than £6,000, which will also be donated to the family along with money raised from dance competitions at the Isobel Donnelly dance school, of which Ms Doherty was a member.
Police have launched a public appeal to ascertain Ms Doherty’s last movements on Saturday. A Police Scotland investigator said the force are “keeping an open mind” about the possible reason for the attack, but that they would not rule out a “sexual motive,” according to the Daily Mirror.
Ms Doherty left her friend’s house after a sleepover at around 8:15 on Saturday, to travel by bus to a hairdressers where she worked. She bought a sausage roll from the Delicious Deli in Clydebank on the way to her bus stop, however it is not known whether she arrived at the stop.
Pamela Munro, Ms Doherty’s mother, said in a Facebook post: "We are absolutely devastated, as will many people who know her will be xxx."
Other tributes for Ms Doherty, who was described by superintendent Duncan Sloan as a “very kind girl, well known in the community and popular,” were left on the crowdfunding pages.
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