Retired nurse admits stabbing daughter in Partick home

A retired nurse repeatedly knifed her daughter - after telling her: "I don't love you as much as I used to."

Irene Forrester attacked on Linda Ann Forrester at the 66 year-old's flat in Glasgow's Partick in January this year.

Forrester stabbed the 38 year-old four times leaving her with a collapsed lung and broken rib.

The first offender later claimed to police: "I hope she is not dead."

Forrester now faces jail after she pleaded guilty to assaulting her daughter to her severe injury and danger of life.

She will be sentenced at Glasgow Sheriff Court next month.

The pair had been at Forrester's home when she suddenly blurted out that she no longer had the same love for her daughter.

Linda Ann went to bed and said she did not want to speak to her mum.

But, prosecutor Lorri Pidgeon told the hearing: “Forrester returned a short time later with a kitchen knife.

“She told her daughter that she was going to put her out her misery and stabbed her four times.”

A wounded Linda Ann managed to escape the flat into her car before calling an ambulance.

Her mum also dialled 999 stating: "I stabbed my daughter. I hope she is not dead. I'm very sorry.

"She will be dead. I am guilty. It is so bad."

The pensioner was later held by police, who found the knife at the flat.

She told officers: "I did it. I did not want to do it, but sometimes enough is enough."

Linda Ann suffered wounds to her back, hip and arms.

She was fortunately able to leave hospital days later.

Forrester's lawyer Neil Stewart said: "She believes this is an extremely serious matter.

"She acted disproportionately, but was at the end of her tether with her daughter."

No further explanation was given in court.

Sheriff Alan MacKenzie continued Forrester's bail meantime.

But, he told her: "Custody is at the forefront of my thinking due to the gravity of the offence.

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