Police Scotland arrested a 35-year-old man after a nine-year-old girl died following serious injuries in Arbroath. Officers were called to Elliot Industrial Estate in Arbroath shortly after midnight, and the child was later taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.
She died at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee. Police Scotland said the death was being treated as suspicious and that the girl’s family were being supported by specialist officers.
Elliot Industrial Estate in Arbroath
The sequence is clear: the call came shortly after midnight, the girl was found with serious injuries, and she was moved to hospital before later dying there. The arrest followed that chain of events, tying the investigation to the death rather than to a separate incident.
Police Scotland did not give a cause for the injuries. That leaves the central fact intact but incomplete: a child died after being found badly hurt in Arbroath, while investigators have already treated the case as suspicious.
Ninewells Hospital in Dundee
Ninewells Hospital in Dundee is where the girl died after being brought there from Arbroath. The hospital is the point where emergency care ended and the fatal outcome was recorded, which makes it the final confirmed location in the timeline.
For the family, the immediate next step is support from specialist officers while inquiries continue. For everyone else, the key development is that police have already made an arrest, and the investigation remains active as they work through what happened before the child reached hospital.
What caused the nine-year-old girl’s serious injuries in Arbroath remains the unanswered question at the centre of the case.
