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[1] On 2 August 1990 the appellant was convicted in the High Court at Edinburgh of the murder of his wife. He was also convicted of assaulting his father-in-law to his injury. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the murder charge and to 8 months concurrently on the assault. At the date of these offences the appellant was 39 years of age.
[2] The trial judge in his Note recorded that at the trial there was no dispute that the appellant had attacked his wife and had stabbed her repeatedly with a knife, inflicting five stab wounds to the head, neck and trunk. The pathologists had concluded that the pattern of injury suggested an attack pressed home with great determination. The assault on the appellant's father-in-law occurred in the course of the same incident and involved the infliction, with a knife, of a wound to his arm.
[4] At a hearing on 19 August 2002 a different judge specified 14 years as the punishment part of the life sentence. In his report to this court that judge observed that the appellant had no criminal record and was under severe stress at the time. He continued:
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