Man accused of stabbing partner in neck after row
He used Find My iPhone to track her before attack at their suburban home, court told
A WOMAN has told a jury that her partner stabbed her in the neck with a kitchen knife after she told him that she had cheated on him.
Project manager Wendy Yeoman, 43, admitted she had gone out on drinking with friends, had taken drugs, stayed in two hotels and, two weeks earlier, ‘had a one-night stand’.
When she returned to the home she shared with Scott Reid in Newton Mearns, Renfrewshire, on March 9, 2020, he reacted angrily and attacked her with a knife.
Reid, 38, is on trial at the High Court in Livingston for assault, abduction, attempted murder and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Miss Yeoman told the court: ‘He knew I’d been unfaithful. I think that he had used my computer for the Find My iPhone function and between him and his friend they kind of worked it out.
‘He was just very angry with me. I can’t remember exactly what was said but it was just rather a heated argument.’
She said he then hit her on the face before going to the kitchen island and taking out a knife.
Miss Yeoman said: ‘I can’t remember if I was punched or pushed to the floor. Scott was standing over me with the knife pressed into my neck, the large kitchen knife.
‘I was just begging for him to let me go. Eventually I said I needed a glass of water and he let me out.’
The jury was shown CCTV footage of Miss Yeoman running out of the back door of the house.
She said: ‘I tried to run away. Then just at the side of the house Scott caught up with me and that’s when he stabbed me in the neck. Scott ran back into the house and I went back in.
‘I think I got a tea towel and held it up to my neck because it was bleeding. I said to Scott, ‘‘You need to phone me an ambulance or get me to hospital’’.’
Photographs of her blood on the kitchen floor and footage of her holding a tea towel to the neck wound were shown to the jury.
Miss Yeoman said Reid then told her to get into his BMW.
She added: ‘I assumed he was taking me to hospital. He drove up the Ayr Road then I’ve no recollection of anything. He was driving very fast. I didn’t see the speed but it was too fast for that kind of road.
‘My memory starts again from waking up in the car with the house in front of me and lots of blue lights. I can’t remember if it was a fireman, a policeman or a paramedic but there was someone there trying to help me. Scott wasn’t in the car.’
The jury was shown pictures of the BMW interior with driver and passenger airbags deployed and images taken by Miss Yeoman’s friend in hospital showing an injury to her neck.
Miss Yeoman said she had two fractured ribs and it took her months to recover. Under cross-examination she admitted she had been drinking and taking drugs for most of the weekend in question.
She said: ‘I wouldn’t have gone out and had a one-night stand if I was in a happy relationship.’ Reid is also charged with drink-driving, failing to report an accident and attempting to pervert the course of justice. He denies all the charges. The trial continues.
‘I was just begging for him to let me go’