Revealed: Jolene Doherty (pictured in an undated photo) can today be named as a the killer of 18-year-old Conner Cowper
A teenage killer who stabbed an 18-year-old to death while pregnant and high on cocaine at a house party can finally be named.
Jolene Doherty became one of Scotland's youngest female killers in April last year when she knifed Conner Cowper, 18, to death at the age of 17.
She was convicted of murder and sent to prison in Holytown, North Lanarkshire last month, where she gave birth behind bars but kept her anonymity as a minor.
Today, however, she turns 18, and can now be legally identified.
Doherty had a reputation for violence from the age of 11 when she was filmed punching an autistic boy who went to her school.
Footage that provoked national outrage showed Doherty punching the young boy in the face five times, shouting at him: 'I can tell you're f****** s******* yourself.'
The boy was heard saying back: 'I don't hit lassies.'
When he dared to move, Doherty shouted in his face: 'You ain't being f****** cheeky to me, right. You're a f****** wee s****bag.'
She then urged him to hit her, which he refused to do before Doherty lashed out once more.
The pint-sized killer was expelled from the secondary school following the attack in 2013, which was shared widely on YouTube and Facebook at the time.
Jailing her for a minimum of 16 years last month, Judge Lord Arthurson said the murder was 'entirely unprovoked and murderous'.
Her murder trial heard how she knifed 18-year-old Conner Cowper (pictured) while pregnant and high on cocaine at a house party
His heartbroken mother Linda Fraser, 37, of Airdrie, paid tribute to her 'gentle' son.
She told the Scottish Sun after the sentencing: 'The sentence couldn't have been higher but it won't bring him back. Jolene is pure evil. When we saw her at the trial we all felt sick. She was even looking
