A 50-year-old woman who used a cooking knife in a bid to murder her husband at their home in Tenby, Pembrokeshire will be sentenced later.

Shafia Sofan was found guilty of attempted murder by a jury at Swansea Crown Court on Wednesday.

She used a traditional Pakistani botie knife with a 25in (63cm) blade to hit Mohammed Abdul Sofan as he sat watching television. BBC.

This story caught my attention not because of the murder but the knife – surely a mistake – that’s a knife with a blade that’s over 2 foot long – what sort of food requires such a blade to prepare?

A Google returns nothing of use; however the Western Telegraph provides further information

A botie is a 25 inch long hooked blade used by the Pakistani community to cut up vegetables and meat. Western Telegraph.

Still makes you wonder what sort of meat and veg the Sofan’s used – I’d be hard pressed to need a blade half that size in our kitchen – surely this is journalistic error?