He sentenced McLaughlin, who had spent 537 days in custody after her arrest, to time already served and a two-year community corrections order and 100 hours of unpaid community work. Graham Stevens' mother said her son was gentle, artistic and had a 'beautiful passion' for the ocean. McLaughlin, who was crying when the judge talked about the loss of her son, Zane, in 2008, had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and a depressive illness since the boy's death. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter after using a sharp piece of broken glass tubing to stab her lover, Graham Stevens, 31, during an explosive argument at her Seaford home on September 21, 2014. McLaughlin and Mr Stevens were in a violent relationship and using ice on a daily basis at the time of his death.

She had stabbed Mr Stevens once in the back as he walked away after hitting and kicking her. Lisa McLaughlin arrives at the Supreme Court in Melbourne in March. Credit:Jesse Marlow Ms McLaughlin, a successful, hard-working businesswoman who was never the same after losing Zane, had left her husband by 2011 and was using ice on a daily basis with Mr Stevens before killing him. She had cradled her son's body in the water until he died after the accident when the family's ski boat and another boat collided about 2 kilometres from the Patterson River inlet in Carrum, south-east of Melbourne, on Saturday, April 19, 2008. Lisa McLaughlin's five-year-old son Zane was killed in a boating accident in 2008.

Her then husband, Anthony, told police in a statement obtained by Fairfax Media how he remembered Zane lying on the back seat of the boat, with blood coming out of his nose and mouth. "I remember Lisa calling out, "What is going on, what is going on?", he said. Graham Stevens, 31 was fatally stabbed in the back with a piece of glass tubing by Lisa McLaughlin. "Lisa was lying on the floor of the boat, to the rear, she was covered in debris. "I remember saying to the police and ambulance people, 'Get Zane, get Zane.'

Before the fatal crash, Zane and his mother were 'playing games like peek-a-boo'. Credit:Richard Hughes "I remember saying constantly, 'Get Zane, get my wife."' A paramedic came up to Mr McLaughlin and told him Zane had passed away. "I got in the ambulance with Zane. The ambulance person pulled the blanket covering Zane back ... I told him that I loved him and cried with him.

"I remember sitting in the ambulance with Zane and asking myself, 'Why did this happen, how did this happen, telling Zane that I loved him over and over. "I cannot remember exactly where Lisa was. I do remember being with her and holding her hand but my memory of exact times, places and happenings is unclear. "I was totally distraught with grief, shock and disbelief at what had happened when we were in the boat. "I don't know how long I spent with Zane in the ambulance." Mr McLaughlin, who suffered four cracked ribs in the accident, was eventually taken by ambulance to Frankston Hospital for treatment.

"I am grieving so much for Zane that I cannot express, and I am worried about the effect the whole incident will have on my wife Lisa and my two children, Max and Indi (who are now aged 16 and 11)." In her police statement, Ms McLaughlin said she believed she was going to die when the other boat came towards them. "It was not a dream, it was real," she said. "And in all of this I still had time to pray 'Dear God no, please not my children, don't take my children.' "And then I heard a massive noise that I had never heard before.