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15/10/2009
OAP Charged After Knife Attack
An 85-year-old man has been charged after an elderly woman was stabbed in Edinburgh yesterday.
Bendicta McLean, 74, was taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with a chest wound, after the incident happened in Clermiston Road, Corstorphine, at around 1pm.
Lothian and Borders Police have said she is in a stable condition in hospital.
Officers sealed off the street at Old Kirk Road and Corstorphine Hill while they carried out a full investigation.
The pair are believed to have been neighbours.
(CD/GK)
Bendicta McLean, 74, was taken to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with a chest wound, after the incident happened in Clermiston Road, Corstorphine, at around 1pm.
Lothian and Borders Police have said she is in a stable condition in hospital.
Officers sealed off the street at Old Kirk Road and Corstorphine Hill while they carried out a full investigation.
The pair are believed to have been neighbours.
(CD/GK)
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