A JURY is now out in the trial of a woman accused of murdering her partner by stabbing him to death with a kitchen knife.
The panel retired at around 2.10pm yesterday in the trial of Cordelia Farrell, accused of murdering Wayne Coventry in the kitchen of his brother's home in Humphrey Avenue, Bromsgrove.
By 4.30pm the jury at Worcester Crown Court had not reached verdicts on the charge of murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter following Mr Coventry's death on October 14 last year.
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Farrell, 38, of Dainton Grove, Birmingham, denies a further charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The allegation is that she pulled and bit Mr Coventry's testicles and stabbed him in the back with a piece of broken crockery on September 11 last year, just over a month before his death.
In the same court Alex Whiston appears for sentence. Two further trials could begin in the same court (court one) today - one of Daniel Matthews and the other of Connor Kendall and Mark Kendall.
A plea hearing of Callum Barnett is due to take place this afternoon in court two. The trial of Duncan Goodfield, a Herefordshire case, is taking part in court three.
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