I’VE KILLED MY WIFE AND NOW SHE’S FREE
Husband back in court over pillow death
DRIVERS are being urged not to cross the new Queensferry Crossing by their satnavs – because they don’t think it exists.
TomTom devices are causing problems for their owners as they near the £1.35billion structure.
The Dutch GPS company said it won’t be added to their maps until the next cycle of updates at the end of the year.
The glitch is the latest to hit the 1.7-mile long crossing that has been plagued by congestion and miles of tailbacks since it opened last week.
One angry driver told us: “I headed over and it looked like I was crossing the Forth in a boat. It is astonishing A DEVOTED husband who killed his cancer-stricken wife as part of a pact to prevent her going into hospital was back in court yesterday.
Ian Gordon, 67, had been accused of her murdering Patricia, 63, who had terminal lung cancer, but that charge was last week dropped by the Crown two days into a trial.
Instead, the retired painter and decorator pled guilty to the killing under diminished responsibility at their home in Troon, Ayrshire, on April 28 last year.
After she died, he confessed to that companies can’t update their systems almost immediately.
“The road network could be confusing and a GPS is essential to help negotiate it safely.”
There were calls yesterday to reopen the Forth Road Bridge to help alleviate the congestion.
Infrastructure Secretary Keith Brown said: “Hopefully, when it becomes less of a novelty, it will improve further and within four to six weeks, we expect to see the old bridge open and some of that further capacity released.” police that he had put a pillow over his wife’s face, telling an officer: “She is now free.”
Yesterday, prosecutor Iain McSporran QC said mother-of-two Patricia, who retired on medical grounds in 2006, suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a result of smoking.
She also believed she had lung cancer but had not been diagnosed because she had a fear of hospitals.
The Crown accepted that in the run-up to Patricia’s death, Gordon was likely to have been suffering from a depressive illness which impaired his ability to determine and control his actions.
Patricia’s quality of life had deteriorated over the months leading to her death and was in extreme pain in the last few days, the High Court in Glasgow was told.
After putting the pillow over his wife’s face, Gordon called daughter Gail, and when she arrived, told her: “I’m going to go to jail. I don’t know how long for. I don’t have a single regret. She was in so much pain.”
A post-mortem examination found Patricia had been suffering from a type of lung cancer that had a poor prognosis. The concentration of pain relief drugs she had taken could have been responsible for her death, Mr McSporran said.
He added: “But for the accused’s confession to having smothered his wife with a pillow, the medical evidence would not have led to the conclusion that he had done so.
“The level of drugs taken by her would have explained death.”
Sentence was deferred until next month at the High Court in Edinburgh. Judge Lord Arthurson allowed Gordon bail but told him: “You should read nothing into that.”