Dundee woman almost beaten to death with dumbbell in woods by killer launches campaign for justice

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A Dundee woman who was nearly beaten to death by a convicted killer as she walked her dog has launched a campaign to help victims and change parole laws.

Linda McDonald was in Templeton Woods on the outskirts of the city in August 2017 when she was attacked by maniac Robbie McIntosh.

The murderer, 32, was out of jail on home leave when he launched the frenzied assault - striking her repeatedly with a dumbbell.

She was attacked almost 16 years after he murdered civil servant Anne Nicoll by stabbing her 29 times.McIntosh was only 15 when he was jailed for life for Anne’s murder on the city’s Law Hill.