Lawyers for a woman sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter have said they are “appalled and gobsmacked” that she will remain in prison six months after her murder conviction was quashed. Farieissia Martin was convicted of murder after stabbing Kyle Farrell, 21, in November 2014. She was jailed for life with a minimum term of 13 years, but the ruling was quashed last year after judges ruled that new evidence had emerged that was not heard in the first trial and a retrial was ordered. The Crown accepted Martin’s subsequent guilty plea to manslaughter and on Friday the same judge sentenced the 28-year-old, who has already served six and a half years, to 10 years for manslaughter. He passed a further sentence of nine months for possessing a mobile phone and a razor blade while in prison. Sentencing her at Liverpool crown court, Mr Justice Dove said “It should never be forgotten that the person at the centre of this tragedy is Kyle Farrell, a young man who was killed by you when you stabbed him in the chest.” Lawyers for Martin said she was a victim of domestic abuse. Her barrister, Clare Wade QC, argued they had a “complex” relationship and there was “a background of coercive and controlling behaviour” which included physical abuse. Harriet Wistrich, Martin’s appeal solicitor for Birnberg Peirce and director of the Centre for Women’s Justice, said she was “appalled and gobsmacked” at the sentence, comparing the length of the sentence with that of Anthony Williams, who received a five-year sentence for manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility after strangling his wife. The Crown had accepted photographic evidence that showed bruise marks on Martin’s neck, consistent with her account that she had grabbed a knife when Farrell put his hands around her neck. “Here is a woman acknowledged to have suffered domestic abuse who had post-traumatic stress disorder as a result and who has shown totally appropriate remorse,” said Wistrich. She said Martin’s two children, who were aged one and two at the time of the killing, had been sentenced along with their mother. She added: “A month after the passing of the domestic abuse bill, the length of this sentence tells us we have a long way to go to understand the impact of domestic abuse and it gives me little hope that things have improved.” At the original trial the court heard that Martin and Farrell had fought in the early hours of 21 November 2014, after she returned home later than expected. Martin stabbed Farrell and, after trying to hide a knife, called an ambulance. She initially told police that intruders had stabbed Farrell, later admitting to stabbing him. She said she acted in self-defence after Farrell grabbed her by the throat. In an impact statement the victim’s family said Martin had wasted time and hid the weapon, and thought only of herself. They described Farrell as “the most caring loving person on this earth with a heart of nothing but gold who loved nothing more than being a father to his two beautiful children.” Sentencing, the judge said by pleading guilty to manslaughter Martin had accepted her “use of the knife was not in lawful self-defence”. He continued: “I have no doubt that you were very much in love with Kyle, and would long to turn back time and live the early hours of the morning of 21 November 2014 differently, but we have to live with the consequences of what we have done.”