Angry mum disembowelled ‘Uncle Tony’ with knife for breaking window

Victim Anthony McMahon had known Jade Parker, 23, for years and she called him “Uncle Tony” the High Court in Edinburgh heard.

When they rowed over the broken window at her home in Mayfield, she threatened to stab him, to which his answer was “Go on then.”

Solicitor advocate Krista Johnston, defending, said: “He had known this young lady since she was seven or eight years old and did not think she had it in her, did not think she would do it.”

But the lawyer said, a combination of drink and a wish to show off in front of two men - one her boyfriend - led Parker to lash out.

Advocate depute Laura Thomson said: “She then stabbed Mr McMahon in the stomach using a pink knife.

“The injury bled profusely and Mr McMahon’s intestines spilled out of the wound.”

Minutes later, Parker was trying to help her 40-year-old victim and was calling 999 the court heard.

Sentencing her today, judge Lord Brailsford told the mother-of-two that her remorse appeared genuine and she had no serious previous convictions.

The judge continued: “However I have to have regard to the gravity of the offence and the fact that you used, for whatever reason - no doubt drugs and alcohol played a part - but you chose to use a knife.”

Parker had earlier admitted attempting to murder Mr McMahon outside her home at St Luke’s Way, Mayfield, Dalkeith, Midlothian, on October 18 last year.

The court heard that she and her boyfriend did not want the company of alcoholic Mr McMahon and sent him away, claiming that Parker wanted to go to bed.

He was angry when he later caught sight of her returning home after buying more drink.

Mr McMahon wrapped a cup in a bag and broke a window of Parker’s home.

After the stabbing, paramedics had to hold Mr McMahon together as he was taken to hospital - where he spent 48 hours in intensive care. Doctors said his life was in danger. Police questioned Parker who said she was “raging” after the window was broken. They found the pink kitchen knife with a seven inch blade in Parker’s fridge and noted “a strong perfumed smell.”

The court heard that for years Parker had struggled with drink, drugs and post natal depression.