Victim or perpetrator? Young mum kills abusive partner with 14mm knife | 60 Minutes Australia

Lena Kasparian didn’t want her partner Marc Zartarian to die. She loved him. But one night at home they got into a fiery argument and he started physically attacking her. In desperation Lena reached for a knife on the kitchen bench. She wanted to scare Mark off and protect herself and her two young children. Defiantly though, he lunged at her and in the scuffle that followed the knife pierced his chest ... by a miniscule 14 millimetres. The cut was tiny but Mark was desperately unlucky - it nicked his heart and six days later he died of his injuries
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