Chronic alcoholic stabs partner 177 times
6 March 2009
A chronic alcoholic who stabbed his partner 177 times has been found guilty of murder.
The 36 year old , who was a chronic alcoholic and was suffering from Alcohol Disorder Syndrome (ADS) had drunk 2 cans of Special Brew after getting up. He then went to a pub and drank a series of whiskies and more Special Brew before returning home via an off-license where he purchased more alcohol. Once home he continued drinking until he went to the pub again, where he consumed more whisky and Special Brew, a quantity of tranquilisers and possibly heroin.
After returning home he stabbed his partner who he claimed had nagged
him. He then confessed to police from a phone box. Officers went to the phone box and arrested him, he was still drinking from a can of Special Brew. At the scene they found a body of a women with stab wounds and a knife in her neck.
He has denied murder but admitted to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but was convicted. He is awaiting to be sentenced but has been told by the judged to expect a life term when he is sentenced at a date yet to be fixed.