UK’s longest-serving female prisoner Marie Pearson could finally be freed 37 years after murdering ex’s new lover

BRITAIN'S longest-serving prisoner may lastly be freed after serving 35-years for a savage jealousy-fuelled homicide.

Maria Pearson, now 66, will likely be instructed inside weeks if she is to be unleashed for the 1986 slaying of Janet Newton.

Maria Pearson will be told within weeks if she is to be unleashed for the killing Janet Newton
Maria Pearson will likely be instructed inside weeks if she is to be unleashed for the killing Janet NewtonCredit score: Handout

Janet Newton was stabbed 17-times by Pearson in a frenzied killing in 1986
Janet Newton was stabbed 17-times by Pearson in a frenzied killing in 1986Credit score: Handout

The mum-of-three, then 31, was caged a 12 months after stabbing her love rival to dying in a frenzied killing.

Pearson buried a sheath knife 17 occasions into the 23-year-old constructing society employee after looking her down a Hartlepool road.

A Parole Board listening to was held on the January 17 for Pearson but it surely was adjourned.

It got here because the board demanded psychological well being checks and plans for the way she's going to dwell locally.

The killer, aged 31 when she was caged, has served an additional 23-years previous her minimal time period of 12-years.

A supply instructed MailOnline: "Maria is the jail system's forgotten inmate."

Teeside Crown Courtroom was instructed the knife skewered Janet's coronary heart and she or he was left for useless in a pool of blood in Grange Highway, Hartlepool.

Pearson, from town, had married welder Malcolm Pearson bigamously in 1986 - days after the start of their daughter Rachel.

However her "intense and stormy" relationship with Malcolm was "doomed" and their child was taken into care after a critical incident at residence.

After the cut up, Janet received along with Malcolm.

It sparked a rage-fuelled marketing campaign by Pearson who abused Janet on the street and despatched bile-filled letters to her mum.

She then killed the 23-year-old.

In 2006 she had her Parole Board suggestion to be moved to an open jail and ready for launch rejected.

It adopted bullying and intimidation allegations two years earlier at an open jail.

She accused then Residence Secretary, John Reid, of a "politically motivated" rejection however she was blasted for her "unresponsiveness to remedy and unwillingness to adapt".

Pearson's final evaluate in July 2020 was rejected, partly due to her poor behaviour in jail.

The precise date of the Parole Board listening to has not been confirmed.

A Parole Board spokesperson instructed MailOnline: "Parole evaluations are undertaken totally and with excessive care.

"Defending the general public is our primary precedence."

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