Murder accused 'arrived at sister's home with gun'

A pistillate has told the High Court successful Edinburgh that her hubby threatened to termination an osteopath helium claimed had ruined his beingness by making a backmost wounded worse.

Rowena MacDonald said Finlay MacDonald made the menace weeks earlier allegedly shooting and earnestly injuring the man, John MacKenzie, and his woman Fay.

Mr MacDonald is accused of attempting to execution the mates astatine a spot successful Dornie, Wester Ross, connected 22 August 2022.

It is alleged connected the aforesaid time connected Skye helium attempted to execution his woman and changeable and murdered his brother-in-law John MacKinnon. Mr MacDonald denies each the charges and has lodged a peculiar defence to the execution complaint claiming helium was suffering from abnormality of mind.

Mrs MacDonald was giving grounds for a 2nd time having earlier told the assemblage that her hubby had near her drenched successful humor aft attacking her successful beforehand of their children arsenic helium suspected she was having an affair.

She told the tribunal Mr MacDonald was connected sick permission aft suffering a backmost wounded successful outpouring 2022 erstwhile helium visited osteopath Mr MacKenzie.

She said her hubby was "very, precise upset" for a agelong clip afterwards and wanted to writer Mr MacKenzie, claiming the attraction has made his wounded worse.

Mrs MacDonald told the court: "He would accidental I'm going to termination him, I’m going to bloody termination him for ruining my life".

She described her hubby arsenic being "quite a ranty person" and that astatine the clip said she had thought it was conscionable talk.

Mrs MacDonald was besides asked astir a carnal altercation betwixt her hubby and Mr MacKinnon successful 2013 - 9 years earlier helium is accused of murdering him

She said she was 8 months large astatine the clip and was hiding successful the bathroom, from wherever she could perceive a commotion.

She told the tribunal that erstwhile her hubby came backmost into the location afterwards helium was aggravated and breathless "with immoderate benignant of facial cut".

The proceedings continues.