A woman who stabbed her boyfriend through the heart with a hunting knife was last night behind bars. Dionne Christie killed Jevin Haig, 21, during a struggle at their home in Falkirk in 2022. The 24-year-old claimed it was an accident after he started ‘grabbing’ her during an argument. But a jury yesterday found her guilty of culpable homicide following a fortnight-long trial at the High Court in Stirling. Remanding her in custody, Judge Lady Poole told Christie that a custodial sentence was ‘inevitable’. Leaving court, Mr Haig’s mother Karen May Mearns, 49, said the jury’s verdict ‘meant the world’ to the family. She said: ‘It doesn’t matter that it’s culpable homicide, not murder. She has been free for two and a half years after killing our son, and now, at last, a monster has been caged.’ The trial heard how Haig carried the 12 inch knife in his waistband for ‘protection’. Christie, who has spent some of her time while on bail on assorted foreign holidays, including to Tenerife and Paris, claimed he had held it to her stomach and threatened her unborn baby. She claimed to have thrust backwards during the struggle, resulting in a knife wound so severe that it pierced his heart. Prosecutors said she made this up ‘in a desperate attempt to rewrite the narrative’ and that she stabbed him in anger because he no longer had money. They also pointed out that Christie delayed phoning 999 following the incident on June 26, 2022. She initially went into the common stair to ask a neighbour to call her mother, telling him that ‘her friend’ was hurt but didn’t need an ambulance and her mother ‘worked in the hospital’. In fact, her mother, Linda, was a cardiology department cleaner. Prosecutors said this showed such ‘wicked disregard’ for Mr Haig's life it meant she did not care whether he lived or died. The aesthetics practitioner eventually told the 999 operator: ‘He’s come in, he’s been trying to start with me, he’s smashed all my house and brought out a knife, a big knife. He’s got a stab mark right in the chest.’ She continued: ‘It’s while we’ve been like, he was grabbing me, he had the knife in his pants, I don’t know how I’ve done this.’ When police arrived, minutes behind the ambulance, Christie said Mr Haig had stabbed himself. Forensic evidence revealed her DNA and a fingerprint on the knife, and a cut on her left ring finger showing where, the prosecution had claimed, her dominant hand had slipped over the hilt onto the blade as knife hit Mr Haig. Jurors heard that another explanation was that she had touched the knife before performing CPR. The prosecution painted her as a ‘volatile’ woman who had invented the story about the threat to her unborn baby. Graeme Jessop KC, the advocate depute, said she had knifed Mr Haig in a fit of anger while packing his bags because he no longer had any money. What was described as a crime-funded lifestyle - which had seen Mr Haig buying clothes and shoes for Dionne and paying for nights away in hotels - was drying up. In a text conversation the day before he died, Mr Haig told Christie he had been ‘losing out on deals’ and suggested they should stay in because a hotel they’d discussed going to was ‘dead’. Christie texted back: ‘You know what’s dead? You.’ She told the court the message had not been about an intention to kill, and pointed out the context - the pair had gone on to chat and joke about an Instagram story of Christie’s. The court heard claims Christie had been violent previously towards Mr Haig, stabbing him in the leg, slashing a jacket, and cutting up most of his clothes. Christie, of Polmont, Stirlingshire, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Haig, from Edinburgh. A jury found Christie guilty of culpable homicide by a majority verdict after deliberating for nearly five hours. Christie, who has posted several pictures on her social media sites of her enjoying holidays to Spain and Paris while awaiting trial for the killing, remained expressionless as the verdict was announced. On the public benches, members of both families wept. Revoking bail, Lady Poole remanded her in custody for sentence at the High Court in Glasgow on May 7. Christie wept as the judge told her a custodial sentence was ‘likely inevitable’. Lady Poole said victim impact statements showed Jevin Haig’s family was devastated by his loss. She said that ‘although on the evidence he didn’t lead a blameless life’, it was a tragedy he died so young after being stabbed by Christie. The court heard that Christie had been arrested and charged almost a year after Haig’s death, as she returned from attending one of her young daughter’s school plays.