Baby Alexis Matheson's Aberdeen murder review report expected

18 September 2012 Last updated at 02:21 ET
The results of a review into the death of a six-week-old baby murdered in Aberdeen are due to be published later this week, BBC Scotland has learned.

Mark Simpson denied murdering his then-girlfriend's daughter Alexis Matheson by assaulting her in 2007.

A jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict at the High Court in Aberdeen in 2010 and Simpson was jailed for a minimum of 20 years.

The review was ordered in February last year, and the report is due on Friday.

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