Britain's longest serving female inmate is set to be released after her tenth attempt at freedom - after stabbing her husbands new lover in the 80s in a jealous rage

'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

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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

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Britain's longest serving female inmate is set to be released after her tenth attempt at freedom - after stabbing her husbands new lover in the 80s in a jealous rage