An axe victim’s family have spoken of their shock after her killer husband was spotted shopping in Edinburgh just five years after the attack.
Roger Geddes tied up his wife, Ann, at their Carnoustie home in February 2010 in the fatal culmination of a campaign of domestic abuse.
He then attacked her, later telling police: “I flew off the handle. I hit her with a hammer axe thing. I hit her with it on the head quite a lot of times.”
The couple had been married for 35 years when 65-year-old Geddes carried out the brutal killing for which the retired civil servant was ordered to be detained without limit of time at the Carstairs state hospital.
Geddes was charged with murder, but to the fury of Ann’s family the Crown accepted a guilty plea to culpable homicide on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The killer has now been seen in Edinburgh, shopping and visiting a coffee shop after being allowed out of the unit in which he is now housed.
Ann’s brother, Alan Richardson, said: “We are shocked to discover he is free to wander only four years after he was convicted of killing our sister.
“It leaves us with serious concerns for the safety of the public. We consider him a highly-manipulative man who remains a danger”.