A violent thug who tried to murder his partner in Spain has made a bizarre bid for freedom – by claiming his victim stabbed herself multiple times.
William McDonald, from Rutherglen,Glasgow, left former beauty queen Mhairi Campbell for dead when he plunged a blade into her three times as she tried to leave his Costa Blanca home in July 2017.
The 62-year-old was finally convicted and sentenced to almost 15 years behind bars in July this year after fleeing to Scotland in the days following the murder bid and being extradited back to Spain.
Now an appeal has been thrown out by a Spanish court, which heard odd claims that Mhairi “inflicted the injuries to herself” in a bid to keep her partner’s home in the sun.
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