A Palmerston woman who stabbed her partner in the heart with a 13-centimetre kitchen knife pleads guilty to manslaughter in the Northern Territory Supreme Court.
A Palmerston woman who stabbed her partner in the heart with a 13-centimetre kitchen knife has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the Northern Territory Supreme Court.She pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter in the NT Supreme CourtYvonne Lulda, 36, had been released from prison on parole after a separate serious harm offence about two months before the stabbing attack in Palmerston in July 2022.
Agreed facts of the case, read to the court, said the victim exited the program on June 28 and, on July 2, Lulda was allowed to leave the rehab centre for the day and return that evening."The offender returned to the program three or four days later to collect her belongings. [She] was visibly intoxicated at this time," crown prosecutor Hamish Riley said.
The court heard Lulda was seen in the car park of the unit block armed with a 13-centimetre knife, before she stabbed her 26-year-old partner in the chest. "The bloodied knife used to stab the victim was found on the ground … approximately 10 metres from where the victim was found," Mr Riley said.
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