A TEENAGER who killed her older lover is planning to return to her home village - to the dismay of the victim's family.

Helen Maywood was just 18 when she stabbed her live-in boyfriend Howard Turford, 36, once in the heart, with a kitchen knife.

The couple had a tempestuous two-year relationship and Maywood showed immediate remorse for what she had done, claiming she had reacted badly because she had been raped two years earlier.

She was jailed for three years for manslaughter.

Maywood was released last June with orders that she live in the east Cleveland town of Loftus, where her mother lives and where she and Mr Turford had lived.

But now her licence is due to expire and she has indicated she wants to go to nearby Liverton Mines, where her father owns a shop and where Mr Turford's mother, Alwyn, still lives.

Mrs Turford said: "We have been to the solicitors and written to the Home Office and I am waiting for a reply, but it seems there is nothing we can do.

"There is something wrong with the justice system that she should be allowed to come back to this area.

"I don't know what my reaction will be when I see her. People in the village were disgusted when they found out she was back in Loftus.