A SCHOOLGIRL feared she was pregnant before she was allegedly murdered, a court was told.
Witness Tracy McFetridge, 44, said she saw Caroline Glachan, 14, receive a positive test.
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She also told the High Court in Glasgow she heard accused Donna Marie Brand, 44, threaten to “batter” the girl for spending time with a youth she was also seeing.
Brand, Robert O’Brien, 45, and Andrew Kelly, 44, deny murdering Caroline whose body was found in the River Leven, in Renton, Dunbartonshire, in August 1996.
Ms McFetridge said she accompanied Caroline as she took a pregnancy test which returned positive.
She told the court Caroline had been spending time with O’Brien who had also been seeing Brand.
Ms McFetridge said she advised her not to say anything about the potential pregnancy around Brand.
She added: “Donna said she was not happy and said she was going to batter her.”
Forensic pathologist Dr Marjorie Turner said there was no sign the teenager was pregnant at the post-mortem examination.
Earlier in the hearing, the trial heard the murder accused had threatened to “batter” a schoolgirl for spending time with a youth she was also seeing prior to her death.
Ms McFetridge told police she heard Donna Marie Brand – one of the three people charged with Caroline’s murder – utter the threat in a conversation with another friend weeks before she was found dead.
The High Court in Glasgow heard Ms McFetridge made the accusation in a statement she gave to police during a re-investigation in 2020 – 24 years after Miss Glachan was found dead in the river Leven, aged 14.
The trial, before judge Lord Braid, continues.