Mum in legal bid for new death probe

A MUM is planning a legal bid to reopen a probe into the death of her teenage daughter.

Danielle Scott died of an overdose at the age of 17 after failing to return to a children's unit in Edinburgh that she had been allowed out of on a one-hour pass.

She had met up with a heroin addict who took her to his home and gave her methadone.

The heroin addict – Peter Meaney – was jailed for three years and eight months in November 2006 over her death, after which a fatal accident inquiry looked into the circumstances surrounding it.

Now Danielle's mother, Lorraine, has written to government ministers and senior prosecutors and plans to consult a lawyer to consider the possibility of a judicial review.

Sheriff John Horsburgh said that Lorraine, and Danielle's father, James, had been too quick to criticise the care workers and that the tragic girl's own choices led to her death.

But Lorraine, 49, claims that the judgement "bore no resemblance" to the evidence heard.