An east London woman jailed for killing a convicted paedophile has had her sentence more than doubled.
Sarah Sands, 33, had her jail term increased to seven-and-a-half years by judges at the Court of Appeal on Friday.
She was originally sentenced last year to three-and-a-half for the November 2014 killing of Michael Pleasted.
Sands carried out the attack within weeks of hearing that her 77-year-old neighbour had been released on bail ahead of his trial over accusations that he had sexually assaulted young boys.
Armed with a knife, she went to his flat in Canning Town to confront him about the allegations.
But she ended up stabbing him eight times and he bled to death.
Sands was cleared at the Old Bailey of murder, but convicted of manslaughter by reason of loss of control and sentenced in September.
During the trial it emerged that Pleasted, who also went by the name of Robin Moult, had 24 previous convictions for sexual offences between 1970 and 1991.
