A FORMER Scottish amateur boxing champion was sent to prison for six

years at the High Court in Aberdeen yesterday for killing a woman

outside the city's municipal headquarters.

James McAllister, 30, who won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games

in Edinburgh in 1986, was found guilty after a seven day trial of the

culpable homicide of Lily McClymont, 36, a divorced mother of four.

Relatives of the dead woman cheered and applauded the jury's unanimous

verdict, then broke into tears as McAllister was led from the dock.

Strict security was in force during the trial, and 10 uniformed and

six plainclothes officers were in court for the verdict in case of

trouble between the two families.

McAllister, of Canal Street, Aberdeen, who is unemployed, had denied

killing Mrs McClymont, of Summerfield Place, Aberdeen, in June last year

by punching her in the face and causing her to fall to the ground.

The court was told that the fall caused a fractured skull and brain

injuries and that Mrs McClymont died two days later in hospital. Before

the assault, she and McAllister had been involved in an altercation in a

night club.

Mr Donald Findlay, QC, for McAllister, said the cause of death had

been accidental and that McAllister had never intended to kill her.

There had not been a high degree of violence nor a sustained attack.

''The level of violence is not consistent with fatal injuries,'' said

Mr Findlay. ''It was because she fell and banged her head.''

Lord Abernethy told McAllister, who admitted nine previous convictions

for assault, that he had a dreadful record and that he would be failing

in his public duty if he did not impose a substantial sentence.

He said that while he accepted McAllister had not intended to kill the

woman and that there was no element of premeditation, the force of the

blows must have been considerable.

McAllister was also found guilty of committing the assault while on

bail. Lord Abernethy sentenced him to two months imprisonment on this

charge, to run consecutively.

Mr Peter Smart, a brother of the dead woman, said after the verdict:

''Six years is not enough for taking my sister's life. He has left four

children motherless. He battered her brains in. My sister was not the

drunken fool they tried to make out. She was just a woman who was out

for the night.''