Woman who stabbed ex-lover with 'tattie peeler' cleared of attempted murder

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A woman who repeatedly stabbed her former lover with a ‘tattie peeler’ blade was cleared of attempted murder today. A jury found Lindsay Lowe guilty instead of assaulting Steven Clarke to his severe injury under provocation.

Lowe, 44, had admitted wounding Mr Clarke eight times with a four inch Kitchen Devil utility knife at her flat in Broxburn, West Lothian but denied trying to murder him.

She claimed she had acted in self-defence because she was in fear of her life after he had battered and strangled her and hit her over the head with a beer bottle.

One of the stab wounds she inflicted penetrated 52-year-old Mr Clarke’s chest causing his left lung to collapse and potentially endangering his life, the High Court at Livingston heard.