The UK’s longest-serving female prisoner has been denied parole for a ninth time.
Maria Pearson, 66, stabbed her ex-boyfriend’s new partner Janet Newton to death in 1986 and was jailed for life for murder the following year.
Pearson, who was 31 at the time, plunged a sheath knife into her victim 17 times and had to serve a minimum of 11 years behind bars.
