- Donna Maxwell denied staging the incident exterior the Ailsa Hospital in Ayr
A nurse who stabbed herself exterior a hospital earlier than claiming she had been attacked has been convicted of losing police time.
Donna Maxwell denied staging the incident exterior the Ailsa Hospital in Ayr in November 2018.
But a jury discovered the 47-year-old, from Irvine, responsible by majority after a trial at Ayr Sheriff Court.
The horror incident sparked an enormous police response and an harmless lady – who has since died – later appeared in courtroom earlier than being cleared of any involvement.
Maxwell continued to insist she was the sufferer of a random assault throughout a four-day trial.
NHS nurse Donna Maxwell (pictured) was discovered responsible of losing police time after stabbing herself in plot to say compensation
Maxwell, 47, pictured exterior Ayr Sheriff Court. She was discovered responsible following a four-day trial
Police exterior Ailsa Hospital in Ayr, after Maxwell stabbed herself after which claimed to be the sufferer of a ‘random’ assault
Her makes an attempt to dodge justice got here undone when the courtroom noticed CCTV footage of her shopping for a knife in Tesco that matched the blade she would go on to thrust into her personal physique.
Maxwell advised the courtroom the accusation she had stabbed herself was ‘utterly unfaithful’.
She additionally advised the jury how she had been confronted by her alleged attacker earlier than being stabbed.
The trial heard proof Maxwell had purchased a Go Cook kitchen knife from Tesco in Irvine with a serial quantity that matched the blade.
Stricken Maxwell satisfied colleagues who ran to her support that she had been ambushed and knifed on the facility, which specialises in psychological well being, psychiatry and addictions.
Prosecutors alleged that ‘on a variety of events’ between November 22 and 27, Maxwell knowledgeable police that she ‘had been assaulted and struck on the physique with a knife’
The police cordon at Ailsa Hospital in Ayr, North Ayrshire, after the incident
James McGoldrick, who served as a detective sergeant in Police Scotland’s cyber crime unit, advised the trial police analysed Maxwell’s telephone.
Data confirmed Yahoo searches for ‘lady’s anatomy’ and ‘lady’s anatomy diagram’, which had been deleted by a consumer of the machine.
He advised the courtroom police have been unable to inform when the pages had been accessed or deleted.
Searches for ‘declare compensation’ on the UK Government’s web site and ‘declare compensation if sufferer of crime’, have been additionally discovered within the net historical past.
As a part of an attraction for data Superintendent Brian Shaw gave an outline of the ‘suspect’ who was aged between 30 and 50, 5ft 2in to 5ft 3ins, with a slight construct and pale complexion.
Prosecutors alleged that ‘on a variety of events’ between November 22 and 27, Maxwell knowledgeable police that she ‘had been assaulted and struck on the physique with a knife’.
The single cost alleged she made statements to the police, at her Irvine house and at Ayr Hospital, which she knew to be false, and that she ‘did briefly deprive the general public of [the police’s] providers and render the lieges liable to suspicion and accusation of assault to damage’.
Sheriff Shirley Foran referred to as for background reviews and deferred sentencing till February.