A Welsh woman who murdered a Leitrim man by stabbing him 13 times and then scalding him with boiling water, had her life sentence backdated by 18 months today to allow her time already served to be taken into consideration by the prison parole board.

A 25-year-old Welsh woman who stabbed a middle-aged Leitrim man thirteen times admitted today under cross-examination that she had lost her head “completely” because she was drunk at the time and didn’t know what she was doing.