77-year-old stabbed after asking woman to be girlfriend

A woman who stabbed her 77-year-old friend three times in the neck and chest after he allegedly asked her to be his girlfriend has been remanded in custody pending sentence.

Desmond Garland had been living a very independent life up until the night Linda Nugent, aged 43, attacked him.

He never returned to his home after the attack and died last December in a nursing home from an unrelated illness.