Overview
- Makepeace, 43, was sentenced Friday at Chester Crown Court to life in prison with a 27-year minimum term.
- Jurors returned a unanimous guilty verdict last month after less than two hours of deliberation.
- Hours after police spoke to both parties over a street row on August 18, she stabbed Steven Rothwell in his Macclesfield flat and stayed the night before leaving the next morning.
- Investigators found a kitchen knife with Mr Rothwell’s blood and Makepeace’s DNA that appeared washed and put back, and a pathologist said he would have died within ten minutes.
- Police said she told friends she had stabbed him, sent a voice note saying “I’ve murdered my boyfriend,” and later called 999 under the name “Katie,” before CCTV and phone data led them to her in rural North Wales.