He ‘tried to kill his blind wife because he could not cope with caring for her’

A 90-year-old man tried to stab his blind wife to death as she slept because he could not cope with caring for her, a court heard. Edward Turpin tried to murder frail Joan Turpin, also 90, at their home in Ringshall Road, Orpington, Kent, last 22 September after decades of ‘happy marriage.’ Ms Turpin said in a video recorded while she was in hospital: ‘He woke me up with the knife in my chest, telling me he couldn’t take any…