A hit and run driver has killed herself in prison despite the victim’s family pleading with the judge to spare her prison.

Katie Allan, 21, a student at Glasgow University, was serving a custodial sentence at Polmont Prison, Falkirk for injuring teenager Michael Keenan while drink driving.

But three months into her 16 month sentence, she took her own life after struggling to adapt to life behind bars.

Her parents claim she was "strip-searched after almost every visit" and wasn't sleeping because she was being terrorised and bullied by other inmates. They believe this eventually lead to her suicide, and that the prison ignored their concerns over her treatment.

It comes months after her victim Michael Keenan, now 16, and his family asked the judge to spare Katie prison. She was found dead in her cell.

Michael's father Gordon Keenan, 56, told The Daily Telegraph: “She was obviously full of remorse and apologised several times to us.

“We wrote to the CPS to ask them to spare Katie of a custodial sentence, we were ignored. As the victims, we didn’t think it was necessary, some people don't get custodial sentences when the victims have died.”

The Keenan family are also calling for the governor of Polmont Prison, Brenda Stewart to step down, claiming the prison “lacks duty of care” after it failed to spot Katie's struggles. She was said to be self harming, and suffering from stress-related hair loss.