Murder Case The Digital Detectives: Who is Tasmin Glass and who helped her murder Steven Donaldson?

Published date22 April 2024
Publication titleMyLondon (England)
Tasmin Glass is the convicted killer of Steven Donaldson. She lured the father of her unborn child to his death and then later casually made sandwiches at a café when questioned by police. Detectives who investigated Glass have revealed they were stunned by her demeanour when she was approached about the death of her former boyfriend

Detective Constable Nicola Annan, of Police Scotland, told how she went to a café in Kirriemuir where Glass worked to speak to her after Steven's body was discovered. She said: "I went to the café where Tasmin was working. During this time Tasmin's behaviour I would say was quite bizarre.

"She continued to make up sandwich fillers and spread rolls and have general chit-chat. Bearing in mind this is her boyfriend who has been brutally murdered and she is standing there mixing up her tuna and onion". The programme also shows recordings of Glass's police interviews where she stared blankly at detectives and gave a series of "no comment" answers.

Who is Tasmin Glass and who helped her

On the evening of June 6, 2018 Glass lured Donaldson to a meeting to talk about their failing relationship. She waited at the arranged meeting point with two men to murder him.

At the time of the murder, she also was pregnant with Donaldson's child. Steven Dickie and Callum Davidson helped Glass to murder Donaldson. They armed themselves with a baseball bat, knife and a cleaver or axe before attacking him at Peterpan playpark and stabbed him 26 times.

Then the two men dragged Donaldson to his BMW and laid him underneath the car, before setting the car on fire. Glass left the scene to go home while the murder was happening, and police found evidence on her Apple watch that she was sleeping after setting up the murder.

Donaldson, from Arbroath, Angus, was...

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