A woman found guilty of stabbing and killing her partner has had her murder conviction overturned by the court of appeal.
Farieissia Martin will now face a retrial after judges ruled that new evidence had emerged that was not heard in the first trial.
Martin, then 22, was convicted of the murder by stabbing of Kyle Farrell, 21, in November 2014.
The 27-year-old, known as Fri, was found guilty of murder at Liverpool crown court in June 2015. She has served six years of her sentence.
At a court of appeal hearing in London on Wednesday, Lady Justice Carr, sitting with Mrs Justice Yip and His Honour Judge Philip Katz QC, quashed the conviction on the basis of fresh evidence that was not available at the time of the original trial, and ordered a retrial.
Harriet Wistrich, Martin’s solicitor, said she was delighted that Martin’s murder conviction had been quashed. “We look forward to putting the new evidence in support of her defence before a new court,” she said.
