Mum's 'Hate' As Murdered Lee's Killer Freed

One of Britain's most infamous killers "doesn't deserve a second chance" after serving a 14-year sentence for murder, the victim's mother has told Sky News.

Tracie Andrews was jailed for life after a frenzied knife attack on her fiance, Lee Harvey, in 1996.

The former barmaid lashed out during a row as they drove along a country road in Worcestershire, cutting the 25-year-old's throat and stabbing him 42 times with a penknife in the back, face, neck and chest.

She left him to bleed to death and made up a story about a road-rage attack by another driver.

Two days later she appeared on television holding the hand of Mr Harvey's mother, Maureen, as they appealed for information to help catch the killer.

Andrews, now 41, walked free from jail last week and has insisted it is her "human right" to get on with her life.

Ms Harvey, from Birmingham, said: "Anyone that commits murder doesn't deserve a second chance, because the victim doesn't get a second chance...

"His life has ended that night and our lives were ruined by it and it just ripples on.

"All the family, all the friends, everyone is affected by the murder and she is now free to carry on with her life, and Lee just cannot."

Ms Harvey said Andrews was a "born liar" and she remembered her having a "wicked temper".

"Lee was obviously infatuated, in love with her, or whatever," she said.

"I think it was just a sexual thing at the beginning. She seemed to get some power over him. She stalked him and gave him just a really, really bad time.

"He was warned many times - not just by me but by Tracie Andrews' mother as well - for them not to stay together."

She said it was "outrageous" that Andrews had served 14 years for the killing and called for a change in the law to make sentences tougher.

"I feel really let down because I feel as if the victims' families have got no rights and the prisoners, the murderers, they have got all the rights," she added.

"If you're going to call it a life sentence, then let it be a life sentence. If someone takes a life, a life should mean a life.

"What I want is for victims' families to have a bit more of a say... we need our lives to be rebuilt and we don't get all the counselling and the help that she has."

Andrews, who lived with Mr Harvey in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, eventually confessed to her crime in a letter from prison, but refused to apologise or accept full responsibility.

The Ministry of Justice refused her request for lifetime anonymity after she was freed from Askham Grange open prison, near York, where she spent the last part of her sentence.

She now calls herself Tia Carter and is living at a hostel. She is not allowed within 25 miles of Mr Harvey's mother without informing the authorities.

Ms Harvey said: "She showed no remorse whatsoever in the last 14 years and I think her own family have even asked her to do a statement and to say that she's sorry.

"I wouldn't accept it anyhow. Saying sorry is not enough. I think she should pay by serving a life sentence.

"She sat in front of the cameras and lied to the world, she sat there holding my hand knowing there were no people out there who did it - it was her.

"She's a born liar. I hate her."