An Ashburton woman who fatally stabbed her partner in the head - then tried to convince a jury he’d inflicted the 12cm wound himself - has been jailed for more than four years. “In a moment of extreme anger borne out of the hurtful verbal tirade, she stabbed Mr Hemi in the back of the head,” McRae said. Because of the vulnerable location in which you struck Mr Hemi, the outcome of such an attack can have, as was the case here, catastrophic consequences. Photo / NZ Herald“These features of your background do not bear directly on your actions in killing Mr Hemi. “Because you continue to deny the offending in the face of what is an overwhelming case, any discrete credit for remorse is unavailable,” said Justice Mander.
