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Tayside mum-of-four admits killing her husband

Tayside mum-of-four admits killing her husband

A Tayside mother-of-four stabbed her husband to death at the family home before telling a police support worker: “The kids will never forgive me for killing their father.”

Louisa Anderson inflicted a single knife wound to her husband Douglas’s right calf, which resulted in heavy blood loss after they were heard arguing.

She later said: “I didn’t mean to kill him. It was in the leg. He wasn’t meant to die.”

Anderson, 36, later wrote to a relative from prison and said: “I can’t ask for anyone’s forgiveness as I will never be able to forgive myself and believe me when I say that no one can hate me as much as I hate myself. If I could trade places with Dougie I would in a heartbeat but I can’t and I will always have to live with that.”

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that in recorded phone calls from prison she made further admissions and said she couldn’t remember the incident as she had been drinking.

Anderson was originally charged with murdering her husband on February 25 this year at the home they shared in Dunnock Park, Perth, but pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of culpable homicide by striking him on the leg with a knife and killing him

Advocate depute Jane Farquharson said taxi driver Mr Anderson, 39, was described by friends as “a popular family man”.

Lord Uist continued the case for the preparation of a background report on Anderson ahead of sentencing.

The judge told her: “Although you have previous convictions for three offences of assault and one of possession of an offensive weapon you have never previously been sentenced to custody.”

Anderson was remanded in custody.

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