Hello and welcome to episode 72 of the UK Truth Crime Weekly Podcast. I'm Adam.

Thank you very much for joining me today. I hope you had a good week so far.

As I write this on a Sunday evening, snuggled on the couch with my adorable half-down

nation, half-pued-of-dog buckly, I feel I won't be able to get up as already

everything aches after having spent the whole day in my garden. Do you know that

feeling? If anybody here knows an upside to getting older, please do let me know.

Before we start today, a huge thank you to all my Patreon supporters, but especially

this week's new supporters, Alex Haney and Angela Dunnevant. I really appreciate your

support. I mean, I really appreciate it and without you, I wouldn't still be

producing a weekly podcast after starting 16 months ago.

Today's case is from April 2013. Looking through past episodes nearly all the

murders I've covered have been men doing the murdering. On the rare occasions

that the women have been violent, it was usually due to the verbal or physical

assault they'd suffered at the hands of a man. And let's not shy away from the fact

that it's usually men who kill women. The latest Famicides Census report published in

December 2017 revealed that 113 women were killed by men in England, Wales and

Northern Ireland in just 2016. Nine in ten women killed that year were killed by

someone they knew. 78 women were killed by their current or former intimate partner.

And 65 of those were killed in their own home or the home they shared with the

perpetrator. Truly shocking, isn't it? But today we look at something quite

different. A murder carried out by a woman on a man without any history of abuse.

I will let you judge the validity of the motive. This isn't unheard of and many of you

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