Pensioner sent to prison for knife attack

A PENSIONER who carried out brutal knife attacks on his wife and step-daughter after wrongly believing he was being poisoned has been jailed.

Alister Currie stabbed 71-year-old Myra and Karen Docherty at the marital home in Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire.

Both women were left badly scarred with Miss Docherty requiring a four-hour operation.

Currie, 74, later initially denied attacking his wife of 22 years and claimed if he had wanted to kill his step-daughter he would have “used a bigger knife”.

He previously admitted at the High Court in Glasgow to assaulting Mrs Currie to her permanent disfigurement and Miss Docherty, 49, to the danger of her life.

Judge Lord McEwan yesterday jailed first offender Currie to a total of four and a half years.

Advocate depute Mr di Emidio said the Curries’ marriage is now over and that the women have been “greatly traumatised” by the attacks.

James MacDonald, defending, said Currie had “profound regret” for what he had done.