'The night my dad died is something I will never be able to forget'

Olesja Hertova (pictured) pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of James ‘Shey’ Ryan. Her daughter told the court: 'Me and my mother were close in our own way, and there were good days too. But when she drank, she would sometimes turn into someone I didn’t recognise, angry, unpredictable and hard to reach.'

The teenage daughter whose mother killed her father has told a court she grew up in a house full of “hostility” where she “watched my parents fight constantly”.

Eliska ‘Ellie’ Ryan’s victim impact statement was read out at the sentence hearing of her mother, Olesja Hertova, aged 50, who pleaded guilty to her father’s manslaughter in May.