Woman jailed for stabbing husband to death in Glasgow

WOMAN JAILED FOR STABBING HUSBAND TO DEATH IN GLASGOW

A WOMAN who stabbed her husband to death was yesterday jailed for more than three years.

Catherine Watson knifed husband Charles through the heart after a confrontation at their home in Maryhill, Glasgow, last January.

She later called her daughter after the incident, screaming: "I've stabbed your dad.

I think he's dying." The couple's 28-year marriage - once described as "wonderful" - deteriorated after Mr Watson's business began to fail and he started drinking heavily.

Catherine Watson, 54, was originally accused of murder, but admitted the reduced charge of culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

Judge Lord Matthews was handed 27 testimonials from her family and friends - some begging for her not to be jailed.

But the judge yesterday said a non-custodial sentence was "unrealistic".

He jailed Watson for three years and four months, reducing the sentence from five years due to her guilty plea.

Lord Matthews said: "It is tragic that drink affected him the way that it did." The High Court in Glasgow earlier heard that the couple split in 2007, but continued to stay together.

Watson's QC Frances McMenamin described the case as "tragic".

Miss McMenamin said the attack was "completely out of character" and that Watson had expressed "distress and remorse".