A British woman who faced the death penalty in Malaysia after stabbing her abusive husband to death has been pictured back in the UK with a 'ring on her wedding finger'.
Samantha Jones, 55, was imprisoned in the Asian country after she killed her husband John Jones, 63, at their home on the island of Langkawi in 2018.
She was spared the nation's mandatory death penalty by hanging after a judge ruled she was not guilty of John's murder - and ordered to spend three years behind bars in February.
Ms Jones was freed from her rat-infested cell in Pokok Sena this summer, and MailOnline understands her family paid for her flight back to the UK - with assistance from the Foreign Office.
Pictures released in the Mirror show Jones with a 'ring on her wedding finger' and driving a Range Rover with personalised number plate at her three-bedroom home near Yeovil.
Samantha Jones, 55, was spared the mandatory death penalty and was imprisoned after she killed her husband John Jones, 63, at their home on the island of Langkawi, Malaysia in 2018
Last August, a judge spared her the mandatory penalty of death by hanging after ruling she was not guilty of John's murder. Instead Jones, who claimed to have stabbed John (pictured) in self-defence after suffering years of physical abuse, was found guilty of 'culpable homicide without intent'
Jones said she stabbed her husband (scene, pictured) after he returned from an all-day drinking session with friends and became abusive - hitting her in the face and stomach
Jones says she grabbed a knife (pictured) to protect herself, then plunged it into her husband's chest as he goaded her to attack him
The former insurance clerk and her husband, who was a retired fisherman, moved to Malaysia 17 years ago from Somerset after falling in love with the country on a holiday in 2002.
But she claims their 'new life' quickly turned into 'hell in paradise' as John - a father-of-two and grandfather-of-four - drank heavily and physically abused her.
She stabbed him in October 2018 after he returned drunk to their villa on the dream island of Langkawi.
John, a retired fire service chief,
