Paige Doherty's heartbroken mother has spoken out after her daughter's killer was sentenced to life in prision.

John Leathem, 32, stabbed the teenager more than 60 times when she stopped at his Delicious Deli in Clydebank, on March 19, and he dumped her body in bushes two days later.

The married father-of-two was sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow to life with a minimum term of 27 years after pleading guilty to her murder at an earlier hearing.

The South Court was packed with Paige's family and friends for the sentencing.

On the steps outside the court Paige's mother Pamela Munro read out an emotional statement.

She said: "Today we see a monster put behind bars for the unthinkable, brutal crime he committed against our beautiful daughter Paige.

"There is no sentence high enough to justify what has happened but there is now one less evil man in this world which makes it a safer place."

"Paige is now safe and can finally rest now justice has been served to a high standard."

She added:"We would like to thank the public for the supports over the last seven months as without this support we might nearly have gave up."

"All we can do as a family is take each day at a time as there is a huge piece missing that can never be replaced."

"She might not be with us anymore but she will live on in her brothers and sister and through the memories that we share."

Leathem attacked Paige in the back office of the Delicious Deli on the town's Fleming Avenue shortly after 8.20am.

A post-mortem examination found Paige suffered 61 stab wounds, mainly to her head and neck, and 85 further cuts thought to have been sustained as she tried to fight off her attacker.

Leathem was captured on CCTV carrying her body out of the shop in a bin bag and putting it in the boot of his car.

Footage also shows him leaving his shop to buy anti-bacterial wipes, bin bags and bleach.

He is understood to have stored Paige's body in a shed at his nearby home over the weekend before driving to a wooded area off the A82 and dumping her body on the morning of Monday, March 21, where she was discovered by a member of the public.

At the previous hearing, Lady Rae told him: "This was a savage, frenzied attack on a child."

Leathem's lawyer Ian Duguid QC said the murder was a "spontaneous, gross overreaction".

Paige was described by her grandmother as a "kind and selfless person and all-round good girl".

Her family have said they will never get over what happened to the teenager.

The court heard how her mother Pamela Munro hears her daughter's screams in her nightmares and stepfather Andrew said they could not get out of their heads "the terror that she must have experienced".