A man who stabbed his mum in the heart as she tried to stop him fighting was jailed for 19 years today.
Karen Dempsey was stabbed in the heart by her son, Jamie Dempsey, near to the Brambles pub in Kirkby in summer last year. Dempsey then hugged his fatally-wounded 55-year-old mum and fled the scene.
The 32-year-old later asked a cousin to burn the clothes he was wearing and bought beers from an off-licence before handing himself into police. After a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, a jury cleared Dempsey, of Brechin Road, Kirkby, of murder but found him guilty of manslaughter, wounding with intent, and possession of a bladed article and he appeared on Wednesday to be sentenced.
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