Maria Pearson, jailed for stabbing her ex-boyfriend's fiancée 17 times, will be released under strict conditions, despite her victim's family pleading for her to remain behind bars

'Forgotten inmate' Maria Pearson (pictured), now 70, has spent almost four decades behind bars for stabbing her ex-boyfriend's new partner to death in 1986 in Hartlepool.

Maria Pearson stabbed love rival Janet Newton to death in 1986 and was handed a life sentence the following year