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Jack Aitchison

Watch moment Steven Donaldson killers caged for 57 years over 'cold-blooded' murder

This is the moment a judge jailed three people to at least 57 years behind bars after the murder of Steven Donaldson.

Murderers Steven Dickie and Callum Davidson were given life sentences with a minimum term of 23 and 24 years respectively, for the brutal murder following a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh .

Ex-girlfriend Tasmin Glass was sentenced to 10 years behind bars after she was convicted of culpable homicide.

Judge Lord Pentland passing sentence on Steven Donaldson's killers (PA)

Passing sentence, Judge Lord Pentland said Dickie and Davidson had used "extreme violence" in their attack on Mr Donaldson and that the assault was "sustained and prolonged".

He described the victim as a "loved and admired" young man who had established a career. 

"He had many years of life to look forward to," the judge said.

Tasmin Glass lured Steven Donaldson to a play park as part of a plot that saw him savagely murdered (UGC)

Lord Pentland told Dickie and Davidson: "You armed yourselves with a variety of weapons including a baseball bat, a knife or knives and it can be inferred another weapon in the nature of an axe or a cleaver.

"You carried out the attacks in two locations. Initially you overpowered Mr Donaldson at the Peter Pan playpark.

"You then abducted him in his vehicle to the car park at the Kinnordy Loch Nature Reserve.

"There you renewed your assaults on him with unrestrained ferocity.

"He tried to escape and to defend himself, but you cut him down without mercy, severing his spinal cord in two places with a deadly weapon ."

Steven Dickie has been sentenced to 23 years behind bars for the murder of Steven Donaldson (Daily Record)

He added: "You then left his body next to his car which you set alight.

"What I am left with is a clear picture demonstrating you are both cold-blooded, violent and unrepentant."

Glass lured oil worker Mr Donaldson, 27, from Arbroath to a playpark on June 6 last year.

Callum Davidson will spend a total of 24 years in jail for the murder (Daily Record)

There he was attacked by Dickie and Davidson, before being driven to Kinnordy Nature Reserve near Kirriemuir, Angus, where he was killed with a heavy, bladed weapon.

His body was later set alight.

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