Anger as Birmingham love triangle killer gets out of jail early

Karla Biddle outside Warwick crown court in handcuffs.

LOVE triangle killer Karla Biddle, jailed for seven years for stabbing her rival to death at their two-timing boyfriend’s home, is being released from prison after serving less than three years.

The former human resources manager slashed Emma Bradshaw 56 times with a kitchen knife, fatally wounding her in the lungs and abdomen, in May 2008.

Thirty-year-old veterinary nurse Miss Bradshaw was in a relationship with Biddle’s ex-fiancé Ashley Watson at the time.

She was found bleeding to death in the middle of the road outside Mr Watson’s Solihull home after she ran out to try to get help from neighbours.

Biddle, who lived in Aldbury Road, Yardley Wood, Birmingham, was jailed for seven years for Miss Bradshaw’s manslaughter in April 2009.

A jury found her not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter on the grounds of provocation.

Now Miss Bradshaw’s family have been told Biddle is being let out of jail in the next week – just two years and eight months after she was sentenced.

The Ministry of Justice has written to the Bradshaw family to inform them of their decision to let Biddle out of jail in mid-November.

The letter says that Biddle, aged 34, who will remain on licence until May 2015, plans to live in south Birmingham.

It states: “I have been informed by Karla Biddle’s probation officer that she will be released from prison mid-November this year. Her plans are to reside in south Birmingham on release.”

Michael Bradshaw, a retired teacher, of Sutton Coldfield, was too upset to speak about the imminent release of his daughter’s killer.

But a friend of the family said Emma’s relatives were struggling to cope with her death three years on.

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