This is the series of events surrounding the jailing for life yesterday of Tracie Andrews.
Sunday, December 1, 1996: Tracie Andrews and Lee Harvey leave the Marlbrook pub in Bromsgrove at about 10.25pm for the five-mile journey home to Alvechurch, Worcestershire.
During the journey an argument breaks out between Mr Harvey and Andrews. She stabs him more than 40 times, inflicting at least 30 separate wounds to his neck.
Andrews, covered in blood, arrives at the Royal Alexandra Hospital at 11.40pm. She is treated as a witness, not a suspect, allowed to make many visits to a toilet where she could have dumped the murder weapon.
Monday, December 2: Andrews leaves the hospital at 2.36am after nearly three hours and is taken to Redditch police station, where she says Mr Harvey was stabbed by a fat man with ''staring eyes''.
Tuesday, December 3: Andrews breaks down in tears at a news conference as she makes an emotional appeal for help in catching Mr Harvey's killer.
Wednesday, December 4: Andrews collapses in Alvechurch after taking an overdose of 200 tablets and leaving two suicide notes, one for her parents and the other for her young daughter Karla.
Superintendent Ian Johnstone is told at 9.50pm that two witnesses driving the opposite direction to the Escort say the Escort was not being followed - Andrews becomes the prime suspect.
Saturday, December 7: West Mercia officers arrest Andrews at 11am and take her to Redditch police station.
Sunday, December 8: Exactly a week after Mr Harvey's death and police halt 650 vehicles at check-points set up between the Marlbrook pub and Coopers Hill, in a bid to trace witnesses. They draw a blank.
Thursday, December 19: At 10pm Andrews is charged with Mr Harvey's murder following four ''lengthy'' interviews in which she repeatedly denies any part in the killing.
Friday, December 20: The prosecution alleges at Redditch magistrates court that Andrews stabbed Mr Harvey 37 times, severing his main arteries after a row over a black woolly hat.
Miss Kerry Moreton, prosecuting, also outlines a history of domestic violence between Andrews and Mr Harvey - mainly by Andrews.
Monday, December 23: A tearful Andrews is released from Eastwood Park Women's Prison, near Gloucester, to spend Christmas with her six-year-old daughter Karla at her mother's home in Alvechurch after a decision to grant her bail was backed by a judge at Oxford Crown Court.
Friday, February 7, 1997: Lee Harvey's friends and family attend his funeral service at St Nicholas' Church in King's Norton, Birmingham.
Monday, April 21: Andrews formally pleads not guilty to murder at Birmingham Crown Court.
Saturday, June 7: the date Andrews and Mr Harvey had set for their wedding.
Tuesday, July 1: Andrews's trial begins at Birmingham Crown Court - the prosecution.
Tuesday July 29: Andrews is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
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