A WOMAN who saw her daughter convicted of murder has said she will “stand by her”.

Patricia Goldsmith’s 20-year-old daughter, Kirsty Scamp, was jailed for life at Maidstone Crown Court after stabbing her fiance, Jason Bull, to death on his 28th birthday after a “petty” argument.

Scamp had flown into a jealous rage on March 13, last year after hearing the father-of-two on the phone to a female friend.

The knife penetrated his lung and he bled to death in the stairwell of their flat in Sheerness.

Scamp, a former pupil at Westlands school at Sittingbourne, was convicted of murder by a 10-2 majority, after the jury deliberated for almost four days.

The support worker at Berkeley House residential home, in Lynsted, wept as a judge told her she would have to serve a minimum of 12 years before being considered for parole.

Scamp’s devastated mother has vowed to fight to get her daughter’s sentence reduced.

Patricia Goldsmith says she is standing by her daughter “150 per cent” and believes her when she says she didn’t mean for this to happen.

She said her daughter had planned to spend the rest of her life with Jason Bull and was in love with him.

Mrs Goldsmith, of Miller Close, Kemsley, near Sittingbourne, fears for her daughter in prison.

She said: “She hasn’t coped very well being on remand for over the last five months, so I’m very worried about how she will cope with 12 years. She is also grieving for the man she loved."

She added: “Kirsty wasn’t the jealous type. She could handle herself, but she would never have stabbed him with the intention of killing him.”

Mrs Goldsmith, who says she now wants a solicitor who will take on the appeal case, added: “I’m scared if we do appeal and it gets turned down, she will end up getting a longer sentence, but how much worse can it get?”

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