In 2026, a 39-year-old man entered a formal guilty plea at the High Court in Edinburgh to the murder of his former partner, whom he repeatedly stabbed with a kitchen knife while subject to an active court order.
Lee Inglis admitted to murdering 35-year-old Stacey Hogg on 25 June this year inside her home in Hawick, situated in the Scottish Borders. The mother-of-three was fatally assaulted after Inglis discovered that she had commenced a new relationship.
The prosecution outlined that Inglis carried out a sustained attack using a kitchen knife. Following his arrest by Police Scotland, Inglis made chilling disclosures during police interviews, stating that Ms Hogg was his “possession” and asserting that if he “could not have her, no one could”. Inglis further admitted to interviewing officers that he intended to cut off her head during the assault.
The court heard that the couple had formally separated in November 2024, following an incident the previous month in which Inglis assaulted Ms Hogg with a knife. For that specific attack, Inglis was convicted and sentenced to a community payback order alongside a restriction of liberty order (an electronic tagging curfew). That order remained actively in force at the time of the murder. Inglis’s criminal record also included two prior domestic assault convictions from December 2021 specifically relating to Ms Hogg, alongside other convictions for violence.
Ahead of the formal sentencing hearing scheduled for 5 November 2026, the victim’s brother, Arran Hogg, issued a statement on behalf of the family demanding systemic answers and institutional accountability:
“Stacey should still be here. Her kids should still have their mum. Our mum and dad should still have their daughter, and we should still have our sister. Instead, our family has been left trying to get our heads around something that should never have happened. We have to live with this loss for the rest of our lives, and nothing is ever going to change that. What makes it even harder to accept is what we know about Stacey’s case. Her former partner had previously abused her, including a knife attack, and had been subject to a restriction of liberty order when he took her life. Why let out someone so dangerous? So we have to ask the question: how did it get to this point? We know nothing will bring Stacey back, but we deserve answers about what happened and whether more could have been done to protect her.”
The family underscored the urgent necessity for statutory agencies to improve information-sharing, treat early domestic abuse warning signs with gravity, and hold public institutions accountable when protective measures fail.
The case follows wider scrutiny over domestic homicides across Scotland, where Police Scotland records approximately 200 incidents of violence against women and girls daily.
Inglis remains remanded in custody pending formal sentencing at the High Court in Edinburgh on 5 November 2026, where a mandatory life sentence with a specified minimum punishment part will be determined.
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