Woman who ‘forgot’ knife is cleared of murder

A jeweller has been cleared of murder after she told a court she forgot a knife was in her hand when she stabbed her boyfriend to death. Elizabeth Hart-Browne, 27, knifed Stephen Rayner, 25, three times during a row when she got back to their flat in Acton, west London from a party where she had been drinking champagne. The mother-of-two plunged the large kitchen knife deep into his neck as her children slept just yards away on 17 September…

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