Tracie Andrews
Jenna Stephens,[1] also known as Jenna Stephens Goldsworthy or Tia Carter but better known by her original name of Tracie Marguerite Andrews (originally registered as Tracey Marguerite Andrews)[2] (born 9 April 1969), is an English murderer who killed her fiancé, Lee Raymond Dean Harvey (born 20 September 1971), on 1 December 1996.
She was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murder at her trial in July 1997 and served fourteen years in prison.
[5] On Sunday 1 December 1996, after another day of fierce arguments, Andrews and Harvey went to a local pub for the evening in an attempt to reconcile.
Andrews claimed that on the way back to their flat in The Becks, Alvechurch, Worcestershire, late that evening[6] the pair became involved in a road rage incident with two men.
[5] At a press conference on 3 December 1996, Andrews elaborated on the supposed attack, saying that a "fat man with staring eyes" had stabbed Harvey after getting out of a Ford Sierra in which he was a passenger.
The couple's car had stopped near a cottage, and the commotion had alerted a male resident living metres away, who discovered Harvey stabbed on the road and a bruised and bloodied Andrews standing by him.
[4] A witness statement from a child in an adjacent cottage said she could clearly hear an argument between a man and a woman after the car had parked up on the night.
[4] In Harvey's hand were found more than 80 strands of Andrews' hair, which pathologists determined would have had to have been taken from her head with considerable force, i.e. through a physical struggle.
[4] This disproved Andrews' story that she and Harvey had been attacked in a road rage incident after being followed by a car whilst driving home.
[4] Andrews' suicide attempt and the confirmation that no road rage incident could have occurred convinced police of the need to arrest her.
[5] Andrews had spent long periods of time in the toilet at the hospital for unknown reasons, apparently to dispose of the murder weapon.
[4] Seven minutes had passed between Harvey being fatally stabbed and him being discovered by the occupant of the adjacent cottage, during which time Andrews had made no attempt to summon help from the houses on the road or from anyone else.
Andrews appealed the sentence, claiming that she was the victim of a miscarriage of justice because of damaging publicity surrounding her case.
[15][16] Maureen Harvey, Lee's mother, has written a book called Pure Evil: How Tracie Andrews Murdered My Son, Deceived the Nation and Sentenced Me to a Life of Pain and Misery.
