Dornie osteopath ‘disarmed former patient after shooting’

Mrs MacKenzie said she was eating cereal on her patio when she became aware of shouting.

She said she walked round the house to investigate and saw a man holding a “long thin gun” at his side.

Mrs MacKenzie said she heard people shouting at her to get back inside.

She said once she was in her house, a man was waiting for her and shot her in the face through a glass window.

Mrs MacKenzie told the court: “He was standing there pointing the gun at me when I came in through the patio door.”

Advocate depute Liam Ewing KC asked her how many times she was shot and she said she believed twice.

She said; “My eyes were full of blood.”

Describing the moments after her husband – who she calls John Don – arrived in the house, she said: “I looked over John’s shoulder and the man was standing there – dark, tall.

“He shot John Don at point blank range and we both fell down onto the shower area.”

She added: “He was standing there, the man, and I thought, ‘this is it, this is us going to be killed’ but then my husband rose up and took the gun off the man.”

Mrs MacKenzie said she grabbed the toilet roll holder and used it to hit the man on the head a couple of times, then stopped when she heard a voice say: “That will do”.

She said she realised then that police were there.