WESTHILL WOMAN CONVICTED OF ATTEMPTED MURDER OF HUSBAND
A north-east woman has been found guilty of attempting to murder her husband by stabbing him.Grace Fullerton had been on trial at Aberdeen High Court accused of a brutal attack on Iain, her spouse of 29 years.
Emergency services attended their home on Brimmond Crescent in Westhill around 8pm on June 14 last year, transporting both to hospital.
Mr Fullerton, 64, sustained an exposed tendon in his hand and a partially collapsed lung.
He required 33 stitches and has been left permanently disfigured.
During the five-day trial, Fullerton defended herself, claiming self-defense and mental unfitness at the time of the incident.
She told police she "may have saved someone’s life" by stabbing him to stop him from drink-driving.
Her husband, a recovering alcoholic with no memory of the attack, supported her version of events, stating: "I was an alcoholic for years, and it’s clear to me that my behaviour caused us a lot of grief.
I did not want this charge against my wife to come up today, I’m the reason she’s sitting in the dock.
I can’t remember the incident, but I don’t believe she attacked me, I think it was a struggle." The court also heard from psychiatrist Robert Brogan, who examined Fullerton shortly after the incident and claimed she had "lost all contact with reality" and was fixated on killing herself.
However, the jury of nine women and six men took less than an hour to find Fullerton guilty of attempted murder.
Fullerton, 61, who lives on Wallfield Crescent in Aberdeen, cried in the dock as the verdict was read.
Lord Ericht deferred sentence to obtain reports, and she will be sentenced at Glasgow High Court next month.
Following the verdict, her solicitor George Mathers stated: "She is extremely disappointed at the result and very distraught."
