Mother is jailed for attempted murder
Victim Anthony McMahon had known Jade Parker, 23, for years and she called him “Uncle Tony”, the High Court in Edinburgh heard yesterday. Advocate depute Laura Thomson said: “She stabbed Mr McMahon in the stomach. The injury bled profusely and Mr McMahon’s intestines spilled out of the wound.” Sentencing her yesterday , judge Lord Brailsford told the mother-of-two: “I have to have regard to the gravity of the offence and the fact that you chose to use a knife.”