A mum stabbed her boyfriend in the chest and told him to "stop being soft" as he begged her to call an ambulance.
The city's top judge told Lyndsey McCarthy that she could have killed her partner after knifing him following a visit to the pub. But she has walked free from court over the incident after what was described as a "momentary loss of control", having apparently been headbutted and strangled immediately before the stabbing.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Wednesday, that the 44-year-old and complainant Lee Ratcliffe had spent the afternoon of January 8 last year in the pub. But, in the evening, "things descended into argument" and the couple returned to her home on Prescot Road in St Helens.
