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| Robert Buczek guilty of Eleanor Whitelaw scissors murder | Robert Buczek guilty of Eleanor Whitelaw scissors murder |
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| A 24-year-old man has been found guilty of the murder of an 85-year-old woman in her Edinburgh home. | |
| Robert Buczek killed Eleanor Whitelaw, known as Norah, by stabbing her seven times in the neck with a pair of scissors at her house in Morningside. | |
| The pensioner died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 17 days later. | The pensioner died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 17 days later. |
| Sentence on Buczek, who had denied murdering Mrs Whitelaw on 11 July last year, was deferred until next month. | |
| The trial heard from forensic experts who found DNA matching Buczek's on a pair of bloodstained scissors and a water bottle. | |
| Polish national Buczek told the jury he had never been to the house. | |
| Last week he told the High Court in Glasgow he had been working as a labourer in a house around the corner in Craiglea Place and said he had been there on 11 July for about 30 minutes to collect wages. | |
| He told the jury he had "no idea" how a pair of scissors and a bottle with his DNA on them were found in the house. | |
| "I've never been there in my life and I never attacked that woman in her house," he said. "I've never in my life hurt a woman." |