26 Facts About Tracie Andrews

Tracie Andrews was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murder at her trial in July 1997 and served fourteen years in prison.

Tracie Andrews was the middle child of three siblings and has several half-siblings.

Tracie Andrews's parents had a volatile relationship and they separated when Andrews was six years old; their separation had a lasting effect on Andrews.

In 1990 Andrews gave birth to a baby daughter, but separated from her partner a year later.

Tracie Andrews had aspirations of becoming a model, but originally began working as a barmaid.

Multiple partners recalled Tracie Andrews as being possessive, not liking them having a social life without her presence.

Tracie Andrews claimed that on the way back to their flat in The Becks, Alvechurch, Worcestershire, late that evening the pair became involved in a road rage incident with two men.

Tracie Andrews claimed a car had followed her and Harvey and that two men from the car had confronted and attacked them after stopping them on a country lane.

In reality, Tracie Andrews had stabbed Harvey over 42 times with a pen knife after they had stopped in his car following an argument.

Harvey's sister later said she knew from the time she was told about the murder that Tracie Andrews had killed him.

At a press conference on 3 December 1996, Tracie 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 Tracie Andrews standing by him.

Tracie Andrews immediately ran back to his house to call the emergency services.

Tracie Andrews seemed to contradict her original statement, giving different times to her original story, and police had to step in and stop her while she told her story to the press.

Police noted that Tracie Andrews had a lot to say for a person who was supposedly in shock.

Tracie Andrews was still in hospital two days later when police first arrested her and questioned her about the murder.

Police then discovered a pen knife-shaped blood stain and impression in Tracie Andrews' boot, convincing police that she had carried the murder weapon in her boot after the murder and had disposed of it at hospital.

Tracie Andrews had spent long periods of time in the toilet at the hospital for unknown reasons, apparently to dispose of the murder weapon.

Seven minutes had passed between Harvey being fatally stabbed and him being discovered by the occupant of the adjacent cottage, during which time Tracie Andrews had made no attempt to summon help from the houses on the road or from anyone else.

Police stated that Tracie Andrews had tried to leave the vehicle at the location where Harvey was murdered and that an argument had then occurred.

Many of Harvey's stab wounds had been in his back, indicating that Tracie Andrews had stabbed him whilst he retreated to the car.

Tracie Andrews' mother stated after the trial that she could not understand why her daughter had invented the implausible story she gave.

Tracie Andrews was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation that she serve at least 14 years.

Tracie Andrews appealed the sentence, claiming that she was the victim of a miscarriage of justice because of damaging publicity surrounding her case.

Tracie Andrews was banned from travelling within 25 miles of her victim's family without supervision.

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.