A 'VIOLENT' prisoner accused of attacking eight prison officers and the sentence of a woman who stabbed her partner to death are cases due to be heard today at Worcester Crown Court.

Daniel Matthews, 28, denies attacking eight prison officers with two improvised weapons and a flask of boiling water at two prisons – HMP Long Lartin, near Evesham and HMP Bristol. We will be bringing you a full report on the opening of the case in due course. Body worn footage of the struggles with the defendant, which also showed blood-covered and bandaged prison officers, was played at the city's court one yesterday.

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Meanwhile, Cordelia Farrell, 38, who was convicted of manslaughter but cleared of murder yesterday afternoon will be sentenced this morning after she stabbed her partner Wayne Coventry in the chest with a kitchen knife at his brother’s Bromsgrove home. This will be the first case called on before Judge James Burbidge QC, the Recorder of Worcester, who presided over the two week trial.

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The stabbing happened in Humphrey Avenue on October 14 last year when she plunged the knife through Mr Coventry's chest, sinking the blade to a depth of 9cm and piercing his aorta. She told a jury that Coventry, with whom she had a volatile relationship, had first placed a smaller knife to her back before she turned and stabbed him with a large knife taken from the knife block.

The stabbing followed an earlier attack by Farrell on the victim on September 11 last year during which she was said to have dragged him about by his testicles, bitten them and stabbed him with a piece of broken crockery.

Farrell of Dainton Grove, Birmingham, was also convicted by the jury of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in relation to this earlier attack.

A series of plea hearings are due to be heard in court two by Judge Martin Jackson in relation to Narinder Jhinger, Paul Lakh, Samuel Davey and Adam Newell.

Two potential trials could be heard in court three by Judge Nicolas Cartwright - either that of Mazamal Altaf or Jonathan Rippard, both Worcestershire cases.