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Knife killer who stabbed wife 36 times is let out for regular trips to Scots shopping complex

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A knife killer who stabbed his wife 36 times is being let out for regular shopping trips nine years after he escaped a life sentence on grounds of insanity.

Neil Cumming, 52, was found not guilty when he stood trial for the murder of his wife Jane, 40, after his lawyers argued he was not of sound mind when he killed her.

Judge Norman Ritchie QC ordered Cumming to be detained without limit of time after his not guilty plea was accepted in 2012.

But now he is enjoying regular trips out of the low-security hospital where he is a patient – and is expected to be released within months.Cumming mingled with shoppers as he bought groceries in a local supermarket at Berryden retail park in Aberdeen earlier this week – where he was spotted by the

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