Emily died in 2016 after her on-off boyfriend, Angus Milligan, assaulted her and sent her threatening messages. He got community service – but her family is now suing him over her death
When two police officers arrived at Fiona Drouet’s home in Glasgow in the early hours one Friday in March 2016, she wasn’t unduly alarmed. She guessed that her baby clothing business had been broken into – it had happened before.
The officers asked to come in. In the silence, the sudden gravity, she thought of her father. “I said: ‘Oh my God, is it Dad? A car crash?’ I don’t know why that came into my head,” she says. The police said no, so her mind raced onwards. “I said: ‘It’s my brother, then?’ My brother’s in the police.” One of the officers asked: “Do you have a daughter, Emily, who’s studying at Aberdeen university?”
