Emma Walsh was this week jailed for life with a minimum term of 18 years for the murder of her boyfriend Gary Morgan.
The 31-year-old stabbed her partner in the heart at her home on Lavan Close in Everton on the evening of April 10 this year, having flown into a drink-fuelled rage following a night in the pub. But the warnings sign that she would go on to become a killer had been present for years beforehand.
Walsh had repeatedly abused the tradesman, from Prescot, during a turbulent 13-month relationship. And she had even attacked two previous lovers with knives, as was revealed in a three-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court.