A teenager who killed an underage schoolgirl after buying her drink and abandoning her at an Edinburgh beauty spot on a winter’s night was jailed today.
Ewan Fulton bit Mhari O’Neill on her breast and throttled her before leaving her in an intoxicated state on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill where her body was found by a dog walker.
Fulton, then aged 18, had met the 15-year-old through social media site Yubo – which he later described as being like “Tinder for teenagers”.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that even before he met Mhari on the fateful day he sent her a message which read: “It is freezing today should’ve worn my pimp coat”. In a later message he wrote: “Ur gonna freeze to death OMG.”
After she was found dead he told police that he had met Mhari online and was aware that she was 15 years old.
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