‘I stabbed my blind wife – but I’d be finished without her’

A 90-year-old man who allegedly stabbed his blind wife because he could not cope with caring for her told a court he would be ‘finished’ without her. Edward Turpin is accused of trying to murder frail Joan Turpin, also 90, at their home in Ringshall Road, Orpington, Kent, last 22 September after decades of ‘happy marriage.’ Jurors heard that as Mrs Turpin’s health declined, she lost her sight, needed a catheter and was totally dependent on her husband. Giving evidence…