Melbourne:
A 92-year-old has become the oldest woman in Australia to stand trial for stabbing her 98-year-old husband to death, a report said on Sunday.
Clara Tang, who was married to Ching Yung Tang for the last 70 years allegedly killed him in their Sydney apartment in March last year, 'Sydney Morning Herald' reported.
The elderly woman who pleaded not guilty on grounds of mental illness appeared in a local court last week and was ordered to stand trial in the Supreme Court on a date to be fixed.
According to documents provided by the police, the couple survived the Japanese invasion of China and the Mao's Cultural Revolution before moving from Shanghai to Sydney 30 years ago.
Tang, who suffers from dementia, allegedly feared her husband was poisoning her food. According to the paper, when arrested Tang was almost totally soaked in blood. Her husband had been stabbed twice in the stomach and his head was bludgeoned.
She was initially refused bail due to "the level of violence used and for the protection of the community", but police relented with Tang put under strict supervision in a nursing home ahead of her trial.