An Irish woman is set to be released from an Australian prison this week and deported.
Cathrina Cahill, from Wexford, was jailed for eight years after pleading guilty to killing her fiance, David Walsh, in February 2017.
She admitted manslaughter charges based on "substantial impairment due to an abnormality of the mind".
The incident occurred at the couple's home in Sydney, just five weeks after they got engaged.
Mr Walsh, 29, originally from Moran Park, Enniscorthy, died from a neck wound sustained at their home in Padstow after a night out.
During the trial, Cahill gave evidence of her partner’s regular violence toward her and other people, including times when he had punched strangers and even bit her, as well as evidence of him accusing her of cheating with other men.
The presiding Judge, Peter Johnson, said he did not believe Cahill set out to kill her partner and that he believed Mr Walsh used "controlling conduct, verbal abuse and demeaning language towards Cahill, who responded with the use of violence, including the use of weapons, usually at times when both were intoxicated".
In the most recent update, a spokesperson for the State Parole Authority in New South Wales told the Irish Independent that Cathrine Cahill’s parole was granted in recent days and she “will be removed from Australia immediately upon her release from custody on February 17 and deported”.
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