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Episode 89: Norman Bruce.
This week Emma takes us to the beautiful island of Skye for the story of a terrible murder.
Norman Bruce was 64 years old when he was murdered by his wife Sandra in a vicious domestic incident.
Emma gives us details of the scale of the brutality involved in the attack and how the injuries sustained by Norman resembled those from a traffic accident.
We hear of the apparent lack of repentance from Sandra Bruce throughout the investigation and court proceedings, as well as hearing shocking details of domestic incidents she allegedly committed against other members of the Bruce family.


Case research by Emma Taylor
Produced by Emma Taylor & Joannagh Shanks
Editing by Shaun O'Neill
Music by Tribe of Noise


Sources of research:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/853342/woman-claims-she-doesnt-remember-battering-her-husband-to-death/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35726725#:~:text=Sandra%20Bruce%2C%2061%2C%20had%20denied,of%20Criminal%20Appeal%20in%20Edinburgh.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3132253/5ft-wife-61-stamped-husband-death-argument-pack-cigarettes.html

https://www.scotsman.com/news/skye-woman-charged-husbands-murder-1545060

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-press-and-journal-inverness-highlands-and-islands/20150113/281719792965345

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35726725

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/smirking-wife-jailed-for-life-over-husbands-murder-7h5j9hpfb2q

https://www.scotsman.com/news/wife-who-beat-husband-death-jailed-15-years-1501933

https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/search-judgments/judgment?id=f0260ea7-8980-69d2-b500-ff0000d74aa7

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands-islands/848318/she-battered-her-husband-to-death-now-she-wants-out-of-jail-early/

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/607293/skye-murder-trial-b-put-packet-cigarettes-pillow/

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/five-foot-pensioner-stamped-husband-5914660