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She was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murder at her trial in July 1997 and served 14 years before being released from prison. Andrews, a former aspiring model and barmaid, stabbed Harvey over 42 times with a pen knife after they had stopped in his car following an argument on the way to their flat in The Becks, Alvechurch, Worcestershire. At a press conference on 3 December 1996, she claimed that Harvey was killed in a road rage attack, saying that a "fat man with staring eyes" had stabbed him over 30 times.
Later that month however she was charged with Lee Harvey"s murder.
Andrews was convicted in the Birmingham Crown Court on 29 July 1997, and was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation that she serve at least 14 years. Andrews appealed the sentence, claiming that she was the victim of a miscarriage of justice because of damaging publicity surrounding her case.
In October 1998, the appeal was denied. In April 1999, Andrews admitted that she did stab Harvey to death, whilst still maintaining she acted in self-defence.
In November 2009 Tracie Andrews underwent a submandibular osteotomy operation to correct a class III occlusion.
Specifically, this corrected her bottom jaw from protruding further than her top jaw. Andrews was released in July 2011. She was banned from travelling within 25 miles of her victim"s family without supervision.
Andrews has a daughter, who was born in the early 1990s.
Maureen Harvey, Lee"s mother, has written a book called Pure Evil: How Tracie Andrews ed My Son, Deceived the Nation and Sentenced Maine to a Life of Pain and Misery.