A 74-year-old grandmother attacked her 78-year-old husband with a knife at their home in Ashford, Kent.
Barbara Ellis drunk on gin at the time of the incident, told her husband Roderic, that she hated him before slashing him across the face with a knife, causing a seven-inch wound that required thirteen stitches.
When the police arrived at [...]

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Entries Tagged as 'The Elderly'
Alcohol Is The Major Problem
Joy Ryder - Thursday 07.08.08, 16:58pm
Tags: Anti-social behaviour · Convicts · Disgrace · Drink Related · Knife Crime · Prison · The Elderly · Thugs · UK Law · Violent anti-social behaviour · Yobs
Branded A Racist!
Joy Ryder - Thursday 24.07.08, 21:34pm
A grandmother, who was also a former policewoman, had been woken for the third time one evening by a group of drunken, loud students.
She got dressed and went outside and shouted,
“Why can’t you go back to where you come and make some noise there? I bet your families and neighbours wouldn’t put up with it.
You [...]
Tags: Anti-social behaviour · Disgrace · Drink Related · The British Police Force · The Elderly · Thugs · UK Law · Yobs
Elderly Couple Fight To Stay Together
Joy Ryder - Monday 19.05.08, 18:36pm
Thomas Bashford, 82, and his wife Iris, 81, are faced with being separated in the year that they will celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary.
Tom has been admitted to Southampton General Hospital after a heart attack and suffering from other health problems, and has been told that when he leaves he will be entitled to residential [...]
Tags: Care Homes · Disgrace · The Elderly
Man lived with a corpse for years
Joy Ryder - Monday 11.02.08, 11:21am
Its been reported recently of an elderly man who had lived for at least 8 years with the corpse of his dead lodger in his council flat in Bristol.
After neighbours had complained of smells emanating from the flat, council workers investigated and found the remains of Dennis Pring who would now be 73 years-of-age on [...]
Tags: The Elderly






