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Hannah West of the CPS said: "Any one of the wounds could have been fatal and the evidence we presented to the jury demonstrated Brown's intention was to kill his wife."

Two GPs arrived, but Mrs MacKinnon said: "They were trying to tend to the wounds, but there was too much blood."

The 1982 report, prepared by Anglican clergyman Mark Ruston, about the canings said "the scale and severity of the practice was horrific", with accounts of boys beaten so badly they bled, with one describing how he needed to wear nappies until his wounds scabbed over.

The charity said its crews had been transporting three patients with gunshot wounds to a MSF hospital on Monday when they were stopped by authorities and forced to go instead to a public hospital.

Mr Bush sustained a total of 37 stab wounds, which included 13 to the front and side of his neck, eight to the back of his neck, seven to the front of his trunk and eight to the back of his trunk.