Paige Doherty was a 15-year-old student from Clydebank, Scotland who went missing on 19 March 2016. The search for her began after she failed to arrive at her weekend hairdressing job in Kirkintilloch, 12 miles away. Her body was found on the roadside near Glasgow's Great Western Road two days after she disappeared. Doherty had been stabbed 43 times in the head and neck and suffered more than 150 wounds. The last sighting of her was on CCTV at a deli shop in Clydebank, owned by John Leathem, who later admitted to murdering the teenager. Doherty's mother, Pamela Munro, set up a charity in her daughter's name to teach children self defence.
On 12 October 2016, 7 months after Doherty's murder, Leathem was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow, where judge Lady Rae set a minimum time of 27 years in jail before becoming eligible to apply for parole.