A violent alcoholic who stabbed her husband, brother-in-law and another man has been given a life sentence after a judge branded her a dangerous woman.

Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday how 36-year-old Sarah Fraser had served a previous prison sentence for attacks on her husband, Jack Hirst.

The stabbings in the Holme Wood area in July took place when she was again on bail.

Mr Hirst was stabbed as he challenged Fraser after she had knifed his brother Christopher twice in the chest during a confrontation in Telscombe Drive.

Fraser, of no fixed abode, will not be considered for release by the Parole Board until she has served at least four years and nine months.

Prosecutor Ewan McLachlan said after the two stabbings police alerted a third man, Steven Grimley, and told him to contact them if he heard from Fraser "The defendant rang Mr Grimley and he told her that the police were looking for her,'' said Mr McLachlan. "She said to him that he was next on the list.'' The next day she turned up at his home, and despite his misgivings, Mr Grimley accompanied her to another house where she was staying.

She was drinking and became agitated, the court heard, then stabbed him in the side, chest and shoulder and at one stage told him: "I'm going to finish you off."

Fraser and Jack Hirst had married in December 2005, but just three days later Fraser hit her husband over the head with a hammer, and she was jailed for nine months Two days after her release Fraser assaulted her husband again and it was while she was on conditional bail for that offence that the stabbings occurred.

In August Fraser pleaded guilty to three charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Judge Jennifer Kershaw QC set Fraser's minimum jail term before being considered for release by the Parole Board at four years and nine months.

Reports on Fraser indicated that she suffered from alcohol dependency and an unstable personality disorder.

"You suffer from a mental state which in my view makes you dangerous to the public and that cannot be dealt with by any psychiatric treatment," said Judge Kershaw.