A Paisley woman yesterday admitted stabbing a man to death with scissors.
Violent Jayney Sutherlay, 46, attacked 40-year-old Alistair McFadyen during a disturbance at a flat.
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Mr MacFadyen had been out of prison for less than two days when he was stabbed.
He was found drenched in blood before being rushed to the Royal Alexandra Hospital shortly after 2am, but medical staff were unable to save him.
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At the High Court in Glasgow Sutherlay, who is also known as Mains, pled guilty to culpable homicide.
She was originally accused of murder.
The killing took place at a flat in Fairway Avenue, Paisley, on June 13, last year.
She admitted killing Mr MacFadyen by repeatedly striking him on the head and body with a blade from a pair of scissors or similar shaped bladed implement.
Sutherlay, who was represented by QC Donald Findlay, appeared via a video link from
prison.
No narration of the events surrounding Mr MacFadyen’s death was given in court.
Prosecutor Lindsay Dalziel said: “The narrative was agreed and it will be read at the next calling of the case in the hope that Mr MacFadyen’s family may attend at that stage.”
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His family was not able to be in court because attending is not considered to be an essential journey during the coronavirus pandemic.
Judge Lord Matthews called for a background report to be prepared on Sutherlay.
He told her: “In the circumstances I will simply adjourn the matter until July at which time I will hear the agreed narrative.”
Sutherlay was also accused of being concerned in the supply of heroin, cocaine and Diazepam from a flat in Fairway Avenue, between January 1 and June 13, last year.
Her pleas of not guilty and a further charge of behaving in a threatening manner at the flat on June 13, last year, were accepted by the
Crown. Sutherlay will be sentenced for the killing on July 6.
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