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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Margaret Davis

Son ‘devastated’ as murder conviction of mother’s killer could be quashed

PA Media

A mentally-ill woman who murdered a stranger with a butcher’s knife and tried to kill a second could have her conviction downgraded to manslaughter.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has sent the case of Nicola Edgington, who is now known as Nicole Thomas, to the Court of Appeal over concerns that jurors were given a misleading impression about her mental health.

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