Woman who left family in Mallow pleads guilty to stabbing

A WOMAN who stabbed a man to death before hitting herself on the head with a hammer and jumping off a road bridge pleaded guilty to manslaughter in a British court yesterday.

Woman who left family in Mallow pleads guilty to stabbing

The woman, who left her husband and two young children without any explanation ended up, days later, causing chaos on a British motorway before stabbing a Good Samaritan to death.

Sabina Eriksson, 41, had lived in Mallow, Co Cork, for a number of years before inexplicably taking off one morning in early May 2008. She hit the headlines in Britain a few days later when she ran three times in front of traffic on the busy M6 motorway in North Staffordshire.

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