News - Wife’s ‘disbelief’ at betrayal
| The impotence he had been engaged in a erectile dysfunction help affair left her feeling unloved, unwanted and “raw inside”, she told Cambridge Crown Court.
She and her husband, John, 58, had not had sex for 15 years, she said, and he had told her he was impotent and that his condition could not be treated.
The 61-year-old told Cambridge Crown Court she could not believe her husband would have sex with another woman after prostate surgery impotence her he was impotent. Mrs Foster said she had long suspected the affair between her husband and Miss Simpson - a family friend - but that he had dismissed her fears, even giving the impression he thought her unreasonable for voicing her concerns.
And so it was that Mrs Foster, consumed by “misery and despair” at the breakdown of her marriage, arrived at Lucy Cavendish College on 3 October last year, with a kitchen knife hidden in her handbag.
But her plan, she told Cambridge Crown Court, was to slash her own wrists in front of Miss Simpson if the meeting did not go well. “I’ve been married to John for 35 years and I couldn’t imagine life without him. I never meant to kill her. I never meant to hurt her. I meant to kill myself,” she told detectives in interviews. “I took a knife from my kitchen and if it was obvious after talking to her that nothing was going to go right I was going to kill myself.” Miss Simpson, from Beckenham, south London, told the court that during their meeting “without warning” Mrs Foster climbed out of the chair and punched her in the stomach before attacking her with a knife.
“She went down to the bag on the floor, then she was up out of the chair and she hit me. It felt like a punch.” Miss Simpson told the court Mrs Foster was smiling. “She just looked very pleased with herself. “Everything was gleeful really.” In all, Miss Simpson was stabbed 17 times and felt certain she was “probably going to die”. Speaking after the verdict, Miss Simpson said her life had been saved by the “skill and expertise” of paramedics and the doctors at Cambridge’s Impotence vitamin Hospital. The undergraduate student lost the sight in one eye and suffered a punctured lung as a result of the attack. Mrs Foster told police she could recall asking Miss Simpson questions but that the next thing she remembered was being outside the room with a knife in her hand and Miss Simpson lying nearby. It was on the basis that she had no memory of the attack, coupled with her claim she had taken the knife to kill herself, that Mrs Foster entered not guilty pleas to all the charges.
And on Friday, the jury at Cambridge Crown Court cleared Mrs Foster on charges of attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent. They did, however, find her guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with no intent.
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