By Maxine McArthur
Schoolgirl Paige Doherty was "everything you would ask for" in a daughter, her devastated mother said ahead of the one-year anniversary of her death.
The 15-year-old was brutally killed by twisted deli shop owner John Leathem, 32, on March 19 last year.
She was stabbed more than 60 times after visiting Delicious Deli in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, and suffered a horrifying 146 injuries before being disposed of in the woods next to a busy road.
Paige's grief-stricken family are still attempting to come to terms with the loss of their "angel" but are now determined to focus on the positives by remembering all the good she brought to the world.
Mum Pamela Munro, 33, said her daughter's first instincts were always to look out for others and particularly making her life easier by helping with siblings Andrew, 11, Peyton, five, and Lucas, one.
Pamela said: "You would come in and she would be mopping the floor or she would have a candlelit bath ran for you.
"She was a great big sister. I remember her telling her teacher that 'Andrew Jnr wears a size four nappy' and her teacher saying 'how do you know that Paige?'
"Andrew Snr [Pamela's partner] has said 'you don't actually realise how much she did for us. How much she helped us.'
"I used to say if anything happened to me and Andrew my kids would be fine because she would take them.
"She was everything you could ask for in a daughter."
Even as a child Paige would offer to help her mum make a bottle or bathe her younger siblings.
In her final days she had requested a blue jacket be put in holding at a New Look store in Glasgow so that she could surprise her mum with it as a gift once her wages came in.
Her mum did not find out about that attempt at a good deed until months after Paige passed away.
By that point the jacket was already sold but the impact of the gesture lingered longer than any jacket could.
Pamela added: "That's just the kind of thing she did.
"She would always want to pay. She would buy everybody something with her wages.
Pamela gave birth to Paige when she was only 17 and, as a result of their similar personalities and proximity in age, grew to be best friends.
Paige had aspirations to become a doctor once her hard school work would pay off.
The clever teenager had a back-up career as a hairdresser lined up at the salon where she worked part-time.
Her mum added: "Most people her age don't want to go out and work - I wouldn't have expected that from her but she wanted to.
"She never did anything that would disappoint you.
"It's hard to say that because everybody's got their bad points but it's hard to find something bad about Paige."
The family are in the process of setting up a charity in her honour, called Paige's Promise, which will teach youngsters self-defence and offer grief counselling for those who have lost loved ones in traumatic circumstances.
And Pamela now focuses a lot of her time focusing on Paige's Law - a campaign seeking tougher sentences and more room for victim's rights in the legal system.
This campaign comes after her sick killer was granted his appeal for a reduced sentence.
Pamela hopes others will remember her daughter in the same way that Paige would want them to remember.
She added: "She would be saying to everybody 'don't dwell on this, don't be sitting sad and being upset, don't put off your life.'
"She'd say 'just forget about the person that did this, make more time for family and don't argue as much - life is far too short.'"
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here