Wolverhampton mother jailed for at least 17 years after being found guilty of flat murder
A mother of four was this afternoon found guilty of murdering her partner with a knife through the heart at her flat in Wolverhampton.
Twice-married Caroline Loweth turned killer during the last of many drunken rows in her near-four-year relationship with 53-year-old John Fletcher.
He had covered up a string of earlier attacks by claiming he had repeatedly stabbed himself. Investigators believe the attack was triggered by the victim breaking the frame of a picture she particularly liked at her rented city centre flat in Market Square on October 27 last year.
The 49-year-old claimed that Mr Fletcher from Merridale Court, Merridale, had been fatally injured while peeling vegetables in the kitchen before collapsing and dying at the scene.
But Home Office pathologist Dr Olaf Biedrzycki told Wolverhampton Crown Court during her trial that this was impossible since the near 13cms deep fatal wound could only have been caused by a 'stabbing motion'.
Loweth appeared to wipe away a tear after being unanimously found guilty by the jury who took 10 hours 45 minutes to reach their verdict.
