A man has been acquitted of murdering his art student girlfriend on the grounds of insanity.
Mark Jarvie went on trial accused of strangling and stabbing Jane Kelly, 22, in the bedroom of his family home in Powmill, Kinross, in October last year.
A joint minute read to the jury at the High Court in Aberdeen agreed he had killed her. But psychiatrists had concluded that he had suffered a "total alienation of reason" at the time of the offence.
Judge Lord Tyre instructed the jury to find Jarvie, who has been detained at Carstairs, not guilty of the charge of murder on account of his insanity.
The court heard his parents, Gordon and Linda, walked into his room on 28 October 2011 to find Miss Kelly had been strangled and stabbed in the head with a knife.
The art student was lying face down on the bed fully clothed. Jarvie was sitting on the floor with his hands round her neck.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-17963019
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