Amber Gibson, 16, was strangled and left in a woodland by her own brother (Picture: PA)
A man has been jailed for life after sexually abusing his 16-year-old sister and strangling her in a woodland.
Connor Gibson, 21, lured Amber Gibson to a wooded area of Cadzow Glen in Hamilton, Scotland, in November 2021, before attacking her.
He removed her clothes, sexually assaulted her with the intention of raping her and repeatedly inflicted blunt force trauma to her head and body before choking her to death.
Her body was found two days later, and two days after that Gibson posted a chilling tribute to his sister on Facebook.
He wrote: ‘Amber, you will fly high for the rest of time. We will all miss you. Especially me.
‘I love you ginger midget. GBFN (goodbye for now) X.’
Gibson was arrested the following day and later convicted at Glasgow’s High Court following a 13-day trial.
Amber Gibson was sexually abused by multiple men before and after her death
Jurors heard the siblings were fostered when they were five and three years old by a couple who were eventually granted permanent care of them.
Amber left their care in 2019, when she was 14, while Connor left the following year when he turned 18.
At the time of her murder, Amber was living in a children’s home in Hamilton while Connor was staying at a local hostel for homeless youths.
A manager at Amber’s home reportedly tried to talk her out of going to see Connor after he called her unit, but she left anyway.
Stephen Corrigan, 45, abused Amber’s body after finding her in the woods (Picture: Spindrift)
Their foster father, Craig Niven, told the court he would not leave the siblings in each other’s company because they were ‘not a good mix’.
Connor, who sometimes used the surname Niven, did not seem emotional as he spoke to Craig on the day Amber’s body was found, jurors were told.
The man who found Amber’s body is also due to be sentenced on Monday after being convicted of violating her body.
Stephen Corrigan, 45, touched the dead girl inappropriately before concealing her body instead of calling 999.
Jamie Starrs is serving a 10-year sentence for raping Amber and another girl (Picture: PA)
Amber was found hidden in bushes and branches and covered in mud, with her clothes nearby.
During the murder trial it emerged she had been raped months earlier by a 20-year-old man named Jamie Starrs.
Starrs was jailed for 10 years in August for the attack, which took place while she was incapacitated at a property in Bothwell, as well as the rape of another teenage girl in May 2021.
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Amber Gibson, 16, was sexually assaulted, strangled and left in a woodland by her own brother Connor in 2021.
