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Claire Leveque, 24, died from stab wounds to her neck and chest
A man has been found guilty of murdering his girlfriend in a hot tub in Shetland.
Aren Pearson, 41, stabbed 24-year-old Claire Leveque to death at his mother's home in Sandness on 11 February last year.
The couple, who are both from Canada, had moved to Scotland in 2023.
Pearson denied murder and claimed that Ms Leveque had stabbed herself - but a jury found him guilty after a trial at the High Court in Edinburgh.
He is due to be sentenced after 14:00.
Ms Leveque died from stab wounds to her neck and chest.
Claire Leveque
Aren Pearson said Claire Leveque stabbed herself
Jurors heard that Pearson's late mother Hazel Pearson, who died in May, had told police that on the evening of the murder her son had walked into the kitchen and returned with a knife.
He stabbed himself in the neck and told her that he had hurt his girlfriend.
Ms Pearson then found Ms Leveque in the hot tub, which was in a shed at her home.
"The water was red with blood," she told police.
"Claire was covered with blood. She had severe injuries to her face."
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