Published: Friday, 9th May, 2008 16:30
Man jailed for stabbing wife
By Craig Davidson
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LOCKED UP: George McLaughlin, jailed at the sheriff court yesterday for stabbing his wife after she refused to ply him with drink.
A DESPERATE man who stabbed his long-suffering ‘wife’ because she refused to ply him with more drink has been jailed.
The sheriff court heard alcoholic George McLaughlin, 50, was still completely dependent on his partner of 28 years, even though the couple had split a year before.
The drunk would even get his ex-partner to pay his bills and buy his drink despite living apart, the court was told.
But McLaughlin’s former wife, fed up with his drunken demands, refused to buy him any more alcohol when he turned up at her house on 16 June last year.
Callous McLaughlin responded by chasing her into the street and plunging a lock knife into her chest.
His victim suffered a 2cm-wide ‘incised wound’ on the left side of her chest, but escaped without serious injury.
She has now rid her life of McLaughlin after years of putting up with his ‘intolerable’ alcoholism, the court heard.
Yesterday, McLaughlin admitted a charge of assault to severe injury with a knife when he appeared in the dock at the sheriff court.
His solicitor, Gordon Nicol, said: “Up until then she had always been good to him, more than one would expect from a couple who had split up.
“He feels totally disgusted by himself and had never been violent before. He admits his wife doesn’t deserve this.
“He doesn’t expect there to be any more contact between them and it was a contact he cherished. He only has himself to blame.”
Sheriff John Herald had no sympathy for McLaughlin, of Dougliehill Terrace, Port Glasgow, and sentenced him to one year in prison.
The sheriff told McLaughlin: “This was an attack on a defenceless woman who just had enough of your requests.”
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