A woman has been sentenced to jail for nine and a half years over a murder on Mornington Island.
Tracey Marie Jacob, 35, was sentenced in the Supreme Court at Cairns on Friday following the death of Billy Jackson in April 2019.
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On April 9 2019, police were called to a Wurrurku Street residence where they located the man dead on the floor of a bedroom inside.
Police said Mr Jackson had blood on his face and what appeared to be a single stab wound to his upper abdomen.
The court heard they had first met at a barbecue on the day before and she provoked him when she found out he was the ex-partner of one of her friends with witnesses reporting her hitting him in the head.
He was last seen alive taking her to a bedroom and he was found dead in the locked bedroom the next morning.
Jacob pleaded guilty to manslaughter in April.
At the sentencing hearing Chief Justice Helen Bowskill imposed a sentence of less than 10 years to avoid a requirement for Jacob to serve 80pc of her sentence before being eligible for parole.
She has already served over two and a half years of her sentence.
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Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
