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She Said It Was Self-Defence. Two Juries Disagreed

In the early hours of 3rd July 2016, James Knight was stabbed once through the heart at a flat in Hinckley, Leicestershire. He bled to death internally while Emma-Jayne Magson called emergency services and gave accounts that investigators found inconsistent with the forensic evidence. The knife was hidden. James was pronounced dead at the scene. This documentary examines the killing of James Knight and the two trials that followed. Emma-Jayne Magson's first conviction was quashed on appeal. A retrial was ordered. The second jury also returned a guilty verdict. She was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of seventeen years at Leicester Crown Court. Central to both trials was the question of self-defence — Magson's account of the events of that night, the forensic evidence that contradicted it, and what the case reveals about how self-defence claims are tested when the only two witnesses are the defendant and the deceased. The case also documents a childhood marked by serious trauma and a relationship history that both prosecution and defence examined in detail across two separate proceedings. Based on Leicester Crown Court trial records, Court of Appeal documentation from the quashed conviction, retrial proceedings, and verified reporting from Leicestershire court records.