A mother of two who stabbed her young lover 24 times after going into a rage during a drunken argument is facing life imprisonment after being convicted of murder today.
Michelle Mills used so much force as she attacked Edward Miller, 20, that the knife penetrated nine inches into his body and the blade eventually broke away from the handle.
She then waited 20 minutes before raising the alarm as her partner lay dying on the living room floor of their country cottage in the upmarket village of Scalford in the Vale of Belvoir.
Mills claimed she feared her boyfriend was about to attack her.
She told a jury at Lincoln Crown Court that moments before the stabbing voices in her head told her to "just do it" and then congratulated her afterwards telling her "job well done"
But the jury rejected Mills' story and found her guilty of murder after deliberating for just over five hours.
Flanked by two security guards, Mills burst in to tears as the foreman returned the guilty verdict.
Judge Michael Heath warned Mills there was only one sentence he could pass but told her he wanted time to reflect on the length of her sentence. As she left the court Mills blew kisses to family members in the public gallery.
Remanding her in custody to await sentence Judge Heath told her: "The jury have convicted you of murder and there is only one sentence I can pass in relation to that, that is of course life imprisonment.
"I have to decide the minimum sentence you must serve before you can be released."
The court heard how Mills had attacked previous partners with a knife and had also threatened Mr Miller with a blade during their tempestuous two year relationship.
She was Mr Miller's first serious girlfriend whereas Mills had two children and admitted to the jury that she had over 70 previous sexual partners.
Mills claimed she was the victim of domestic violence during the relationship but the jury heard that Mr Miller, who lived with his mum before moving in with Mills just two months before his death, had suffered assaults at her hands.
The jury heard that Mr Mills , a management trainee at Scalford Hall hotel, died after the couple argued following a visit to a bonfire night party at the village pub.
Miss Yvonne Coen QC, prosecuting, said "What happened to Eddie wasn't a one-off. It was part of a pattern of behaviour with her partners reaching for a knife when she was extremely angry with them.
"She is a dangerous, manipulative, unpredictable and angry woman who reaches for a knife when she is angry."
Miss Coen said that during the evening Mills texted one of her previous partners, saying she still loved him and wished she had never let him go.
"After Eddie, on her account, had grabbed her and pushed her on the sofa she got away from him. It could have stopped," Miss Coen told the jury.
"All he wanted to do, it seems, was to sit having a drink. It would seem that she wasn't going to leave it there.
"She wasn't going to let him ignore her so she took it to the next level by taking a knife to him repeatedly perhaps to punish this young man for what may have happened between them before but clearly to hurt him very severely and during the course of it she actually broke the knife. "
The attack left Mr Miller bleeding to death on the living room floor.
Mills dialled 999 but despite the efforts of paramedics her partner was pronounced death after being taken to the Queens Medical Centre at Nottingham. He had knife wounds to his chest, back and abdomen.
Miss Coen added: "Michelle Mills was considerably older than her boyfriend and obviously had a good deal more life experience.
"She had two young children from earlier relationships. He would have been 18 years old when he met Ms Mills. She was Eddie Miller's first serious girlfriend. It seemed to outside observers they appeared to be completely smitten with each other.
"They were coming to this relationship from very different positions. This was his first ever grown up relationship with a woman. She was an older woman and a mother of two."
Mills, giving evidence, said "I have no memory of picking up the knife but I remember using it to stab Eddie. As I walked back into the living room he came towards me.
"I thought he was going to attack me. I stabbed him because I thought he was going to kill me. I stabbed him a second time in the stomach.
"I killed him but I didn't mean to kill him. I didn't want to kill him."
She told the jury of the voices in her head and claimed that on four occasions she had been abducted by aliens being taken through the roof of her home to a spaceship before later being returned to earth.
Mills claimed that the aliens inserted a probe inside her body which enabled them to continue to monitor her.
Mills, 31, of King Street, Scalford, Leicestershire, denied murder on 6 November last year.
She was arrested at the scene and later charged with murder.
After the verdict Detective Inspector Lee Hill, from East Midland's special operations major crime unit, said: "Michelle Mills is a violent, self centred and manipulative woman who was happy to portray herself as the victim of domestic violence at the hands of a number of her partners, including Eddie Miller.
"The court has heard how Mills was in fact the abusive partner in these relationships and the cause and catalyst of many of these incidents of violence. She allowed and promoted Eddie and others to be unfairly labelled and stigmatised as being solely responsible for the violence towards her.
"Domestic violence is unacceptable and I hope that this tragic case gives the confidence to any victim of violent crime, men and women, to seek the help and support that is available to them."
Mr Miller's parents, said: "It's been hard to learn and read in the press how some people have tried to misrepresent Eddie, but family, friends and anybody who knew him will know the true Eddie.
"We would like to offer our thanks for all who have prayed and supported us throughout this traumatic time. Please respect our privacy as we try and move forward from this tragedy."
