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A woman who served jail time for killing her mother has been rapped by the courts again after threatening to dismember her former friend while making sinister use of a 1973 soul classic.
'Obsessed' Rebecca Durkin, 28, fell out with Georgia Partridge and made the latter feel scared out of her wits after vowing to 'chop her into pieces and put her in a bag.'
The former carer followed up the threat by sending Miss Partridge an eerie message of an image of a black rucksack, alongside a link to Gladys Knight and The Pips' song Midnight Train to Georgia.
Miss Partridge, who shares her given name with the song's title, interpreted the communication as a direct threat that Durkin was 'coming for her'.
Rebecca Durkin, 28, from Liverpool, was jailed for four years in 2014 for smothering her mother Clancy to death with a pillow. She has now been handed a suspended sentence after threatening to chop her former friend Georgia Partridge 'into pieces'
Durkin (pictured) sent Miss Partridge an eerie message of a black bag, along with a link to Gladys Knight and the Pips' song Midnight Train to Georgia. Miss Partridge, whose first name is Georgia, interpreted the message as a threat
At Sefton magistrates court, Durkin admitted breaching a restraining order. She was sentenced to 16 weeks in jail suspended for 12 months and given a new order prohibiting her from contacting Miss Partridge for five years.
Miss Partridge said: 'I felt extremely harassed and very sick and fearful.'
'It made me scared to leave my house and very fearful when I am driving, in case I was being followed again.
'She had said she would kill me and chop me up in pieces and put me in a bag and I was hoping that I would never hear from her again.
'It has been over three years and I am fearful that she may never get over her obsession with me.
'She made my life hell and followed me for years. She slapped me and shoved me in the past. She knows me and she knows that I will take seriously her threats to kill me at some point.'
Durkin, from Liverpool, had previously been locked up for four years and eight months in 2014 for manslaughter after she suffocated her mother Clancy with a pillow during a row at their home in Southport.
Durkin was jailed for manslaughter in 2014 after smothering her mother Clancy (pictured) with a pillow. It is understood she was released in 2018 after serving half of her sentence
She was charged with murder but was cleared by a jury after claiming she had lost control due to suffering years of verbal abuse from her mother, who worked
