Boyfriend killer Tasmin Glass has launched another bid for freedom.
Glass, 27, of Kirriemuir in Angus, will stand before the Parole Board for Scotland on August 12. It will be the seventh time for the killer to appear before the board since she was jailed for ten years in 2019.
The family of her victim, Steven Donaldson, were given the news on Friday – just less than two weeks before the latest hearing.
Speaking to the Press and Journal, Steven’s father Bill said: “For us, the nightmare continues. We just wonder how long this is going to go on for. She continues to show an extraordinary level of disrespect and disregard for the authorities along with a shocking level of arrogance.
“She has never shown any remorse at any stage for the murder of Steven. We, his family, remain fully of the opinion that she should serve the full length of her sentence.
“We strongly feel that she should complete the 10 year sentence imposed on her by the judge.”
View 3 ImagesSteven Donaldson(Image: PA)
It comes after Glass broke the conditions of her release in May last year – just nine months after she was granted freedom. At the time, officials confirmed her return to jail last month but did not state the reasons for her licence being revoked.
Glass and two male accomplices were jailed for the “savage and depraved” killing of her former boyfriend Steven in 2018. She lured her unborn baby’s father to his death and was convicted for culpable homicide, but served just five years before being allowed to walk free last summer – in a move slammed by her victim’s family as a “disaster”.
After being banned as part of her parole conditions from moving to the Angus area, we reported how Glass moved to East Lothian and was photographed near a primary school in Dunbar in October. Furious locals said they wanted the killer removed from the town.
View 3 ImagesTasmin Glass(Image: Paul Reid)
One enraged parent from the town said at the time: “It’s disgusting. She always looks so cold and chilling.
“She comes every day and stands smiling as if she doesn’t have a care in the world. She’s always around children after being involved in one of Scotland’s most harrowing and horrific murders. I cannot believe she only served five years. She should have been made to stay inside the whole sentence.”
Glass was just 20-years-old when she wrote off a car Steven had bought for her. She owed him £1,000 from the insurance payout but instead of admitting she could not find the cash, she concocted a deadly scheme to end his life.
She lured Steven to a remote spot in Kirriemuir, where her accomplices Steven Dickie and Callum Davidson, both 24, murdered him. She was convicted of culpable homicide and sent to a Young Offenders’ Institute for 10 years following a trial at High Court in Edinburgh in May 2019.
Dickie and Davidson were found guilty of murder and given life sentences with a minimum punishment period of 23 years and 24 years. In November that year, Dickie took his own life in Perth Prison.
Speaking during sentencing, Judge Lord Pentland described Glass as “manipulative and devious” at sentencing.
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