Outgoing, popular and with everything to live for, Samantha’s young life was snuffed out when she was just 18-years-old.
The new mum had been enjoying her first night out since giving birth to son Callum when she crossed paths with her 15-year-old killer, Jordan Jobson in a Wallsend alleyway, in 2007.
Jobson, a stranger to Samantha, armed herself with a knife after a disturbance broke out.
Newcastle Crown Court heard how Jobson had been drinking vodka and snorting cocaine before she stabbed unarmed Samantha 10 times in the face, arms and chest and inflicted six other knife injuries.
One of the blows pierced her lung and severed a major artery near her heart and nothing could be done to save her.
The senseless killing left Samantha’s family broken and robbed Callum, who was just 10 weeks old at the time, of his mum.
Jobson was convicted of murder after a harrowing trial at Newcastle Crown Court.
She was originally handed a minimum jail term of 15 years. But after two separate appeals that was reduced to 11.
Find out more about the Knife Angel, here.
