A woman who stabbed her husband through the heart and used the same knife to continue chopping onions just days after Christmas has been jailed for life.
19.09.2023 - 13:07 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A woman who admitted murdering her sister in a brutal blade attack has been jailed for life with a minimum period of 18 years behind bars. At a court appearance in May, Marie Metcalfe, 41, denied the murder of her older sibling Laura, 44, in Hartlepool in April.
She was due to stand trial at Teesside Crown Court yesterday but changed her plea to guilty and was remanded in custody. She returned to the dock today to receive her sentence for the murder, Teesside Live reports.
Laura, who had lived in Scotland for 18 years before moving back to her Hartlepool hometown in 2022, was stabbed on a street on Friday, April 7. She was rushed to hospital in a critical condition with cops saying she was suffering from "injuries caused by a bladed article."
Cops erected a huge cordon in the street following the incident, with a large police presence in the area in the days that followed. Laura had successful surgery on her punctured right ventricle, but a cardiac arrest starved her brain of oxygen and she died in hospital six days on from the stabbing.
Metcalfe, who had been in conflict with a number of her siblings over the years, was initially arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. This was later upgraded to murder, which she initially denied, following her sister's death.
On the night of the stabbing, Laura had allowed a friend, Kelly Nicholson, to stay with her. However, Nicolson turned up drunk and Laura told her to walk it off and return when she sobered up.
Prosecutor James Hill told the court that Laura, who then went out with another pal, returned home to find Nicholson “kicking at the front door”. When confronted, she left to go to Metcalfe's, with the pair then heading to a nearby corner shop.
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