Exclusive interview with Kirsty Scamp
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EXCLUSIVE
By Hayley Robinson
She’s spent the last four years
behind bars after she was convicted of murdering her violent
boyfriend.
Now Kirsty Scamp is adjusting to
life on the outside after being freed from prison by appeal court
judges.
Speaking exclusively to the
Sittingbourne Messenger earlier today, Kirsty said she was finding
it all a "whirlwind".
It follows a Court of
Appeal decision on Wednesday to downgrade her conviction to
manslaughter and reduce her life sentence to six years.
She should have walked free that day but because she has
already served half her sentence at London’s Holloway prison and is
being let out on licence she had to return to her cell for the
night as there was paperwork to be sorted out.
Mum Patsy Barker picked Kirsty
up Thursday afternoon but the conditions of her licence meant
the 24-year-old couldn’t return to the family home in Milton.
As a result she is now staying with
a family member on Sheppey.
Kirsty said: "I would have
preferred it if I was at home. Going back [to Holloway] was
heartbreaking.
"When you’re told your conviction
has been overturned I should have walked out a free woman that day
but they took back.
"I’m not bitter I knew in the end
justice would be done.
"I knew I didn’t intend to kill
someone and with Justice for Women [which took on Kirsty’s case]
and my solicitor Harriet Wistrich I knew in my heart they would
fight my corner and I would get somewhere."
The former Westlands School pupil
was just 20 when she was sentenced to at least 12 years behind bars
for stabbing to death Jason Bull at their flat in Beach Street,
Sheerness.
Maidstone Crown Court heard in
February, 2007 how Scamp killed Mr Bull 11 months before in a
jealous rage after she heard him on the telephone to another
woman.
The knife entered his left lung and
he died within minutes.
The woman Mr Bull was telephoning
told the court they were just friends.
Kirsty launched an appeal two years
ago against her murder conviction arguing it should have been
manslaughter.
Friday, July 23 2010
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