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Abusive ex admits murdering woman after she began new relationship
A man with a history of domestic abuse has admitted murdering his former partner a day after learning she had begun another relationship.
Lee Inglis pled guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh to stabbing Stacey Hogg to death in her home in Hawick earlier this year.
BBC Scotland News has learned that the 39-year-old had twice avoided prison for previous knife attacks on the mother of three.
He was still serving a home curfew and an unpaid work order when he killed the 35-year-old in June.
He waited until his curfew ended at 07:00 before making the three-minute journey from his parents' home to Stacey's house.
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The court heard that he slipped in through the back door and attacked Stacey as she came down the stairs.
She suffered "catastrophic wounds" to her neck and head. Police found her in a pool of blood on a downstairs bathroom floor.
The court heard that when he was arrested by police he told them: "I intended to cut off her head."
Inglis will be sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh on 5 November.