59-year-old grandma stabs neighbours

59-year-old grandma stabs neighbours

A 59-year-old widow is facing a possible jail term after admitting barging her way into thehome of two elderly neighbours and stabbing them.

Bizarrely, the grandmother, Rose Spanswickm put on a balaclava for the attack on James and Sheila Patmore.They had lived about 20 doors apart on the same quiet street in Lewes, East Sussex, for more than two decades.

Spanswick sobbed in the dock yesterday as she admitted aggravated burglary and assault with attempt to rob.

The court did not hear what she was trying to steal or what provoked her violent outburst against the couple, whom she knew well from Lewes Castle Rotary Club.

The Patmores were pottering around at home when Spanswick knocked on their door just before 3pm on November 22 last year.

When retired nurse Patmore, 74, answered she was stabbed several times and her husband, a retired accountant, was injured while trying to protect her.Source: The Daily MailPublished Feb 6 2011