Police ScotlandTwo killers are facing life in jail for the brutal torture and murder of a mother.
Michelle Ramage, 43, and Ryan Hill, 27, subjected Susan Turner to a horrific ordeal inflicting more than 130 injuries.
Ramage had been angry after discovering the 41-year-old had been texting her 51-year-old lover Jason Bell.
Ms Turner was set upon at Bell’s flat in Ayr including being stripped, choked, stabbed with scissors, disfigured and bludgeoned with various weapons.
Hill was convicted of the March 2023 murder at the High Court in Glasgow.
Ramage had pleaded guilty to the charge midway through the trial.
Bell had also been accused of murder, but jurors returned a not proven verdict.
Ramage and Hill – who already had almost 50 previous convictions between them – will be sentenced next month.
The trial heard how Ms Turned stayed near to Bell at the time.
Ramage was said to have confronted Ms Turner shortly before killing her.
Police found Bell sitting outside his flat.
Officers had to force entry to the dimly-lit property.
Sergeant Craig McLachlan recalled “the very strong smell of blood” in the air and then “a visibly deceased female” with injuries lying on the floor.
Bell was asked who the woman was, but claimed not to know.
In his closing speech, Mr McKenna told jurors there was “barely a part of Susan Turner’s body that was not injured”.
Mr McKenna: “This was an attack done to demean and disfigure her – an attack to cause pain.”
After the verdict, the court heard Ms Turner had three children aged between nine and 23.
The prosecutor said Ramage had 37 previous convictions including a five-year jail-term for abduction and serious assault in 2010.
Hill had 11 convictions with a number also for violence. He was on bail at the time for assault, which he was later locked up for.
Lord Mulholland told the pair: “You have been convicted of the brutal murder of a defenceless woman.
“The Injuries you inflicted on this woman – who weighed seven and a half stone – were catastrophic.
“This was a sustained assault – it was akin to torture. She must have been in agony at the time of her death.”
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