A woman convicted of stabbing to death another woman she had met just hours earlier following an "explosion of anger and murderous violence" is to be sentenced next month.

Birute Klicneliene, 50, killed Dace Kalkerte, also 50, who was stabbed to death in her King's Lynn flat.

Eastern Daily Press:

She will be sentenced on January 27 after she was found guilty after a trial at King's Lynn Crown Court which started in October.

The two women had only met earlier that evening while drinking with their partners at an allotment in the town.

Klicneliene, of Sir Lewis Street, Lynn, had claimed she had seen a mystery man running away from the murder scene.

Eastern Daily Press:

Ms Kalkerte suffered a total of 25 wounds in the attack at her flat in Highgate, off Gaywood Road, on April 15 this year.

She later died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).

Police say only Klicneliene knows the motive for the killing and that the level of violence is "beyond comprehension".

The trial, which started on October 24, heard from Andrew Jackson, prosecuting, that Ms Kalkerte had been found in the hallway of the flat while a large knife was found on the kitchen floor.

Eastern Daily Press:

Klicneliene, who was "worse for drink", went with Ms Kalkerte back to her Highgate home arriving at about 10.15pm.

Mr Jackson said the prosecution contended that she had carried out the attack in an “explosion of anger and murderous violence”.

In total Ms Kalkerte sustained 16 stab and puncture wounds and nine incised wounds, including defensive injuries to her right hand.

Forensic analysis of the murder scene showed there was not any sign of forced entry to the flat or any evidence of blood from the top of the stairway to the communal front door.

Eastern Daily Press:

Following Klicneliene's conviction, Detective Inspector Chris Burgess, from the Joint Major Investigation Team at Norfolk Police, said: “What happened in that flat on that evening that caused Klicnelience to do what she did is beyond our comprehension."