The horrific attacks woman, 47, inflicted on her boyfriend, 24, before murdering him in cold blood

A 'vicious' woman who violently stabbed her young boyfriend to death had a history of domestic violence that gave a stark warning she would go on to become to a killer.

Natalie Bennett, 47, killed her partner Kasey Anderson, 24, after knifing him in the heart. She then attempted to stab him in the head as he lay helplessly on a neighbour's driveway and said he was 'dying'.

Mr Anderson died a week before his 25th birthday in March this year after being slashed several times with a knife and suffering two stab wounds. During a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, Bennett shamelessly branded her boyfriend a drug dealer and a violent abuser as she desperately tried to get away with his murder.

A jury saw through her lies, though, and convicted her of murder last week.

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Jurors heard during her trial that she had subjected Mr Anderson to violence on a number of previous occasions, including stabbing him in the head and leaving him 'looking like the Elephant Man' after another assault, the Liverpool Echo reports. His mum, dad and aunt were called to give evidence from the witness box.

They all said that they had witnessed her attacking him or that he had reported to them that he had been assaulted at her hands. Auntie Denise Anderson called Bennett, who denied having attacked him previously, a 'manipulator and a groomer'.

She recalled one occasion when she was 'busy upstairs, cleaning' during '2020, in the lockdown'. when Kasey was living with her, saying: "She rang the doorbell, he answered.

"I could hear shouting from Ms Bennett. He was just standing in