A teenage girl who smothered her mother to death with a pillow after years of 'mental cruelty' in their troubled relationship has been jailed for nearly five years.
Rebecca Durkin, 19, from Southport, Merseyside, admitted strangling her 55-year-old mother Clancy but denied murder saying she had not intended to kill her.
However, sentencing her to four years and eight months in prison for manslaughter, Judge Clement Goldstone, QC, told the student that he was sure she had intended to kill her and had smothered not strangled her.
I am sure on this occasion you lost your self-control. You smothered your mother with a pillow as you had tried to a greater or lesser extent on two previous occasions in weeks earlier,' the judge said.
'On this occasion you smothered her with a pillow possibly in the course of a further argument superimposed upon others which had happened earlier that evening.
'You resisted her efforts to struggle during which I am satisfied she scratched your face and you smothered her for about 15 seconds.'
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