A woman dubbed Britain's "forgotten prisoner" who brutally stabbed a love rival to death in act of hate and jealousy could soon be released after 35 years behind bars, it is reported.
Maria Pearson, now 66, murdered her ex-partner's new girlfriend in a Hartlepool street in 1986 and is the UK's longest-serving female prisoner.
At the time aged 31, Pearson was told she had to serve a minimum of 12 years by a court - but now has been in prison almost three times that.
