Updated: 09/02/2021, 1:42 pm
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Margaret Robertson
A judge has been forced to put a murder trial on hold due to the heavy snow.
Norman Duncan is currently on trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, accused of murdering Margaret Robertson in her home in Aberdeen.
However, judge Lady Scott today halted the proceedings until Thursday after advising the 14 jurors that their last remaining member had been “completely snowed in”.
She said that a heightened travel warning was expected and it was important that those in attendance were able to get home.
Duncan, 42, is alleged to have seized hold of Ms Robertson, 54, pulled her, struggled with her, touched her breast, sexually assaulted her and repeatedly stabbed her on the head, neck and body with a knife or similar sharp instrument on September 25, 2019, at her flat in Promenade Court.
Scot found dead at home suffered multiple stab wounds
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A community engagement initiative at the University of Pretoria (UP) injects more than R60 million into the economy a year.
This is part of the university’s large-scale learning project embedded into the curriculum.
Details of the initiative were revealed by UP’s community engagement manager Gernia van Niekerk at a three-day virtual summit. Organised by the university and the University Social Responsibility Network, the biennial summit allows academics, researchers and practitioners a forum to assess the progress made by partner universities on their social responsibility endeavours.
It started on Wednesday and ended on Friday and was attended by representatives from 16 network partner universities from around the world. The network was established in 2015 and UP is the only African university that is part of it.
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A grandmother who was found dead in her home had sustained multiple stab wounds, a murder trial heard today.
The High Court in Edinburgh was told that several of the injuries inflicted on 54-year-old Margaret Robertson could have caused her death on their own.
Pathologist Dr David Sadler said: “There were maybe three or four of the stab wounds that could have been fatal in themselves.”
Ms Robertson, known as Meg, was found dead at her flat at Promenade Court, in Aberdeen, in September 2019 with serious injuries that included neck wounds.
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Updated: 05/02/2021, 3:24 pm
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Margaret Robertson
A grandmother who was found dead in her home had sustained multiple stab wounds, a murder trial heard yesterday.
The High Court in Edinburgh was told that several of the injuries inflicted on 54-year-old Margaret Robertson could have caused her death on their own.
Pathologist Dr David Sadler said: “There were maybe three or four of the stab wounds that could have been fatal in themselves.”
Ms Robertson, known as Meg, was found dead at her flat at Promenade Court, in Aberdeen, in September 2019 with serious injuries that included neck wounds.
Norman Duncan, 42, has denied assaulting and murdering Ms Robertson.
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