Killer's wife fled to Skye after knife attack

Rowena hoped to be free from danger but was stabbed at home in front of her kids

- MARK MCGIVERN

THE wife of Skye rampage murderer Finlay MacDonald was robbed at knifepoint in London years before she met her killer husband.

Rowena Fellows, as she was in 2012, believed she would have a safer life on the island after twice being attacked while she was a student in 2012.

A friend told the Record that the mum of four displayed huge strength of character to come through the earlier attacks only to face an even more vicious assault from her then husband, who tried to kill her.

Rowena, 34, was the first victim of unhinged MacDonald, who stabbed her repeatedly in front of their children at their home in August 2022, before turning his attention to others.

He was jailed for 28 years last week after being found guilty of murdering his brother-in-law and attempting to kill three other people.

A friend of Rowena, who is now divorced, said: "She has had so much to put up with and was already carrying mental scars from the trauma of the attacks in London when the horrors erupted on Skye.

"She had been walking on the street when a man randomly grabbed her and robbed her at knifepoint.