Carve-up killer grandmother seeks mercy

A NEW South Wales grandmother who skinned and cooked her de facto husband will plead with a court to overturn her life sentence - because she is a woman.Abattoir worker Katherine Knight, who liked to wear feminine Laura Ashley clothes and is known in jail for her demure behaviour, is the only woman in Australia jailed for the term of her natural life. She lodged her appeal against her sentence from maximum security Mullewa soon after she was jailed in 2001 for the macabre murder of John Price. But the case has floundered while lawyers tried to come up with convincing arguments for why Knight, 50, should ever be released from jail. Her solicitor, Peter Katsoolis, refused to comment on the grounds of her appeal, due to be heard this week in the Court of Criminal Appeal. But it is understood it involves innovative grounds, including that she is a woman. "Her appeal has been lodged for years but she hasn't been able to come up with some new grounds. She's been shopping around the lawyers," said someone close to the case.

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