Drink-driver killed herself in prison after inmates' verbal abuse

A UNIVERSITY student who took her own life after being sent to prison for drink-driving had been "petrified" of fellow inmates who showered her with verbal abuse.

- Paul Jeeves

Katie Allan, 21, killed herself after being sent to Polmont Young Offenders' Institution, near Falkirk.

Her incarceration came after defence lawyers said her chances of serving time as a first-time offender were "next to nothing".

But the Glasgow University third-year geography student was jailed for 16 months after admitting dangerous drink driving in 2018.

Having downed cider at a birthday party she lost control of her car and hit a boy of 15 out jogging.

He suffered a broken ankle and fractured eye socket. Katie said she was "devastated".