Killer who lured father of her unborn child to brutal murder spot casually made sandwiches as she was quizzed by cops | H461HYB | 2024-04-24 06:08:01
A KILLER who lured the father of her unborn child to his death casually continued making sandwiches at a cafe when questioned about the murder, a new TV documentary has revealed.
Detectives who investigated Tasmin Glass have revealed they were stunned by her demeanour when she was approached about the death of her former boyfriend Steven Donaldson.
The aspiring actress and singer was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019 after being convicted of culpable homicide for her role in the "savage and depraved" murder near Kirriemuir, Angus, the previous year.
Glass, who was 20 at the time, was found by a jury to have instigated and planned a brutal attack on the 27-year-old oil worker, while her co-accused Steven Dickie and Callum Davidson were convicted of murder.
She is due to be considered for parole and could be released as early as next month.
After serving less than five years in prison the killer could be back on the streets.
Now a new Channel 4 documentary called Murder Case: The Digital Detectives has revealed how Glass was "emotionless" throughout the probe into Steven's death.
Detective Constable Nicola Annan, of Police Scotland, told how she went to a cafe in Kirriemuir where Glass worked to speak to her after Steven's body was discovered.
She said: "I went to the cafe where Tasmin was working. During this time Tasmin's behaviour I would say was quite bizarre.
"She continued to make up sandwich fillers and spread rolls and have general chit-chat.
"Bearing in mind this is her boyfriend who has been brutally murdered and she is standing there mixing up her tuna and onion."
The programme also showed recordings of Glass's police interviews where she stared blankly at detectives and gave a series of "no comment" answers.
In one clip, DC Annan is heard telling her: "Your demeanour has still not changed. You're still sitting there emotionless.
"You can sit and stare at me all you like, it'll not put me off."
DC David Budd, who also took part in the interview with Glass, told the filmmakers: "She is a very devious, deceitful individual.
"If you listen to the community she led a normal life but that's far from how I would describe her.
"She set Steven up for this to happen to him."
Steven, from Arbroath, Angus, was found dead at a nature reserve after he was subjected to 'extreme violence' by Dickie and Donaldson.
They armed themselves with a baseball bat, knife and a cleaver or axe before overpowering Steven at the Peterpan playpark in Kirriemuir, Angus, where he had gone to meet Glass.
The victim was then driven to the nearby Kinnordy Loch nature reserve car park in his own white BMW where he was fatally attacked.
The violent duo inflicted horror injuries on Steven, including severing his spinal cord in two places.
His attackers then set fire to his car.
The documentary shows how detectives used digital data from the killers' mobile phones and watches to place them at the scene of the crime.
Heart rate readings from Glass's Apple watch showed she had gone home and slept soundly after setting up the murder.
Detective Superintendent Andy Patrick, who led the investigation, said: "Once the attack was in progress and Steven Donaldson was incapacitated I think she got in her car and left.
"She was able to go home calmly, engage with her mother and then the health app shows she was able to go to her bed and sleep that night. All at the time when Steven Donaldson was being murdered by Callum Davidson and Steven Dickie."
During the trial in 2019, the court heard Glass, who was pregnant with Steven's child at the time, had written off a car he had bought for her and owed him money from an insurance payout.
She had also formed a new relationship with Dickie, who killed himself at Perth Prison in November 2019 after being sentenced to a minimum of 23 years.
The episode of Murder Case: The Digital Detectives featuring Glass will be shown on Channel 4 on Monday at 9pm.
It comes after in the victim's family slamming the possibility of her release.
A statement from the family given to STV News read: "We have responded, objecting in the strongest possible terms to any bid to free her at this stage in her sentence.
"We do not believe she should be granted parole given the significance of the crime she committed and the impact it has had on us as a family and on the wider community."
In 2019 Lords Brodie, Drummond Young and Turnbull rejected the fiend's bid to have her jail sentence cut last month.
A written ruling released yesterday insisted she deserved her punishment for last June's horror in Kirriemuir, Angus.
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