Kilmarnock incidents: Flowers left as heartbroken colleagues pay tribute

Friends, well-wishers, and colleagues have left flowers in tribute to the mother and daughter killed in last night’s Kilmarnock incidents.

It follows a series of events which caused police to lockdown a hospital, with armed officers in attendance on Thursday evening.

The two women have been named locally as Emma Robertson Coupland and her daughter Nicole Anderson.

The mother, 39, was found injured in the car park of University Hospital Crosshouse, near Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire, at around 7.45pm on Thursday but she died at the scene.

Flowers left at University Hospital Crosshouse, near Kilmarnock.

In a second incident 20 minutes later on Portland Street, Kilmarnock, Ms Anderson, 24, was stabbed.

Emergency services attended the scene and she was taken to the hospital at Crosshouse, but she later died.

Today floral tributes and messages were left at the hospital by colleagues and wellwishers.

One message said: “Emma, NHS angel, now Heaven's angel.”

One note left with flowers read: "Emma, NHS angel, now Heaven's angel."

Another said: “Thinking of our dear colleague and her precious daughter.”

Next to it was a message which said: "Nicole, RIP angel, thoughts with all the family.”

Forensics officers have been spotted on the scene today as the investigation into the incidents continues.

In the third event, which police were treating as being linked to the deaths, a crash then occurred on the C50 - a minor road between the B7036 and the A76 on the outskirts of Kilmarnock - at around 8.30pm.

The 40-year-old male driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incidents.