article_snippet.sent: Last month Mother walked free from court, despite being convicted of manslaughter, free to tell of the four years of horror and warning other women not to make the same mistakes. '
article_snippet.sent: Yes they got it down to manslaughter, the trial judge seemed very sympathetic, it was battered wife's syndrome and Jessica has post traumatic stress. '
article_snippet.sent: Jessica Silva's was been found guilty of manslaughter after stabbing Jessica Silva's partner James Polkinghorne on Mother's Day in 2012 and was given a 2-year suspended sentence.
article_snippet.sent: Jessica only escaped a jail term, after the judge found the killing was done in the most 'extreme circumstances'.
article_snippet.sent: The prison term was suspended on the condition of good behaviour.
article_snippet.sent: Silva pleaded not guilty to her partner's murder on the basis of self-defence, but after five days of deliberation, a jury found The 25-year-old domestic violence victim guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Usher revealed that Jessica's motivation to tell The 25-year-old domestic violence victim story to 60 Minutes was to 'send a warning to others, The 25-year-old domestic violence victim did everything wrong, that The 25-year-old domestic violence victim should have left at the very first sign of violence' In handing down his sentence, Justice Clifton Hoeben said Justice Clifton Hoeben accepted Silva's comments that Mr Polkinghorne had been 'very abusive'. '
article_snippet.sent: See the full story on 60 Minutes at 8.30pm on Nine tonight .
highlights_snippet.sent: Jessica Silva was found guilty of manslaughter but had sentence suspended .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Justice Hoeben, who presided over the case, called situation 'exceptional'
  Jessica Silva story features on Sunday night's 60 Minutes on Nine Network .