JESSICA Silva, the victim of domestic violence who stabbed her violent ex-boyfriend to death, has been found guilty of manslaughter.

Silva, who was allowed to sit next to her lawyer throughout the trial, was placed in the dock as the verdict was about to be delivered.

When the jury foreman convicted her of manslaughter she collapsed on the floor of the dock screaming for her son.

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media_camera Jessica Silva leaves court with her father. Picture: Stephen Cooper

media_camera Silva was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. Pic Stephen Cooper

media_camera Jessica Silva collapsed to the floor after the verdict. Picture: Stephen Cooper media_camera The family did not comment after they left the Supreme Court. Picture: Stephen Cooper

Her father Avalino kept screaming “let me have my daughter” as Corrective Services surrounded her.

Justice Hoeben said he was considering a spectrum of sentences including custodial and non-custodial.

She was freed on bail and will be sentenced in February.

The 24-year-old was charged with killing her ex-partner James Polkinghorne on the street outside her parents’ Marrickville home on Mother’s Day 2012.

media_camera James Polkinghorne was stabbed to death by Jessica Silva on Mother’s Day 2012. Picture: facebook

She had pleaded not guilty on the basis of self defence.

The jury of five women and seven men took 24 hours in the jury room to come back with a verdict.

During the ten days she was on trial, the court heard endless stories of abuse and violence she was subjected to at the hands of the 28-year-old Mr Polkinghorne.

The crown played recorded phone calls between her and Mr Polkinghorne where he tells her he was coming over to “cave her head in” hours before she stabbed him to death.

Just two hours before the stabbing Silva told her brother Miguel in a phone call “James is being a f***ing psycho again and reckons he’s gonna come and kill me right now.”

“Just call the cops if he comes to the house,” Mr Silva said

“I wanna f***ing tell them everything but I f***ing can’t. Why do you think I don’t tell them so he can bash me up all the f***ing time. I’m sick of it. I don’t know what to f***ing do anymore,” she said.

media_camera Police at the scene where Silva killed James Polkinghorne.

Silva then asks her brother “is there anyone we can f***ing contact, somebody to f***ing get him killed or something”.

When Mr Silva says there isn’t and that she needs to show police his threatening texts and to get an AVO out against him, she tell him “don’t worry about it, I’ll f***ing stab him myself.”

Partly based on this phone call, the police charged her with fatally stabbing her ice-affected ex-lover with a kitchen knife up to five times in the middle of Livingstone Rd around 9pm after he got into a brawl with her father and brother.

media_camera Police forensics investigate the scene where Silva killed Polkinghorne.

Police were at the time tapping Silva’s phone because Mr Polkinghorne was suspected of being involved in the drug-related killing of Nikolas Argiropoulos.

The crown argued that there were lawful ways of dealing with Mr Polkinghorne’s behaviour and Silva went outside that night and intentionally killed her ex-lover.

Crown prosecutor Eric Balodis told the jury earlier this week not to undertake a popularity contest but to convict her based on their judgment of law.

“James Polkinghorne should be treated as a person that was killed,” Mr Balodis said.

He said Silva stated her intentions to her brother Miguel hours before the stabbing.

But the defence argued that she was fearful after being subjected to physical and mental violence for four years and stabbed him in self defence after he told her that he was coming over to kill her.