Lanarkshire woman repeatedly stabbed her sleeping mum after row about wine

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A drinker angry over a missing bottle of wine stabbed her mother five times as she slept.First offender Rachael Ware then phoned for an ambulance and apologised for what she’d done.Ware, 30, admitted assaulting her mother to her severe injury at their home in Dunbeth Court, Coatbridge, on January 22 last year.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Ware told her she had caused the injuries with a knife because her mother had taken the bank cards and wine.”Ware told police officers repeatedly that she had stabbed her mother and was sorry.The victim was taken to Monklands Hospital where five wounds were treated.

She was allowed home with painkillers.Police found a bloodstained knife in the kitchen.Ware's mother was in court for the hearing and confirmed to Sheriff Joseph Hughes that she