A missing Inverness psychiatric patient who stabbed a grandmother in her home was detained in hospital without limit of time yesterday.
Chelsea Brown, 24, wounded Kathleen MacKinnon in the stomach with a single blow.
Mrs MacKinnon, 57, found the intruder, who police were looking for, standing outside the bathroom door and made out the carving knife from her kitchen in her hand.
The intruder came towards her before she got a chance to move and plunged the knife into her.
Police were searching for Brown after she was reported missing from New Craigs Hospital, in Inverness, and found her near the scene of the attempted murder.
Brown was charged with attempting to murder Mrs MacKinnon at her home in the city’s Suilven Way on June 18 last year by stabbing her on the body with the knife to her severe injury, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of her life.
Brown was seen by psychiatrists who concluded she was unfit to participate in a trial and an examination of facts was held before Lord Tyre at the High Court in Edinburgh earlier this year.
Brown was brought back before the judge yesterday when further psychiatric evidence was led which resulted in him making a compulsion order and a restriction order on her.
Lord Tyre ordered that Brown should be detained at the medium secure unit at Glasgow’s Rowanbank Clinic under an interim compulsion order.
The court heard that without inpatient care Brown, who has a mental disorder and learning disability, posed a significant risk to her own health and safety and to others.
Defence counsel Jennifer Bain said Brown wished to express her sincere apologies for the behaviour.