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Depressed father 'dies of broken heart' two years after his 15-year-old daughter Paige Doherty was brutally murdered

Paige Doherty was murdered by 34-year-old John Leathem who inflicted around 61 stab wounds on her and stored her body in a shed at his house

The father of murdered schoolgirl Paige Doherty passed away on Saturday after it was reported that he had been struggling to come to terms with his 15-year-old daughter's death two years ago. 37-year-old Jon Bothwell had taken ill while at his home in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire and passed away after he was taken to Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride on Saturday evening. 

According to the Daily Record, Bothwell's 71-year-old mother Roseanne said that her son had "died of a broken heart". The Scotland police concluded that there seemed to be no suspicious circumstances surrounding Jon's death. Roseanne said, "He was heartbroken. Paige loved Jon out her mind too. He never got over it. He died of a broken heart. He was never the same after she died".