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Accused of inappropriate comments
Albert is convinced Russell set out armed with a knife because she intended to harm his daughter.
He added: “Marie did not deserve to die like that, stabbed to death in the street – no one deserves to die like that.
“I realise things happen and that a fight could lead to an accident during which someone dies but she went out with a knife.
“I will never forget that day. I was heading to Marie’s to collect my birthday present as I did every year. Marie always had something waiting for me.
“When I got to the car I discovered I had 15 missed calls from my family who told me to get to the hospital.
“When I arrived they were all waiting and I knew then something dreadful had happened.”
“I think about my daughter every single day. The rest of us have had to live with this but we have pulled together and we have survived.”
Russell, 31, was locked up in 2017 after being found guilty of stabbing Marie to death.
The pair had argued over £10 and got into in a fight outside Marie’s Ballantrae Terrace home on September 6 2016, and Russell plunged a blade into her chest.
Russell was originally charged with murder but was found guilty of the lesser charge of culpable homicide by a jury at the High Court in Aberdeen.
The 36-year-old gran-to-be was attacked in front of her pregnant daughter close to her Douglas home.
At Russell’s trial, Marie’s daughter Jamie Lee Low broke down in tears as she told of the moment Russell stabbed her mother to death in front of her.
She said: “Siobhan came out and she had a knife in her hand – she was shouting and screaming.
“I watched her stab my mum – I watched her stab the knife into my mum’s chest or belly area.
“After she stabbed mum, her and Siobhan ended up on the floor – my mum was lying on the floor and Siobhan held the knife to my mum’s throat.”
A MAN has appeared in court accused of sending an indecent text to another man in which he made inappropriate comments regarding the man’s child.
Prosecutors say the reference to the child formed part of a written message sent by Craig Laurence, 33, of Goosecroft, Forfar, to the man via Kik Messenger indicating that he was sexually attracted to children.
Laurence appeared in private before Sheriff Alastair Carmichael at
Dundee Sheriff Court on a petition alleging that between August 27 and September 2, at Goosecroft, he intentionally sent a written sexual communication to another man via the social media platform, describing to him that he wished to sexually abuse a child, making inappropriate reference to his child, telling him that he viewed indecent images of children and repeatedly sent him messages of a sexual nature, including indecent images of children.
He is also accused of taking or permitting to take indecent photographs or pseudo photographs of children, and possessing the images, at the same location between the same dates.
Laurence is further accused of possessing cannabis and cannabis resin at the same location on Wednesday.
He made no plea and was granted bail while the case was continued for further examination.