By Jennifer Hyland

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The family of a man who was stabbed to death by his girlfriend have welcomed the decision to reject her appeal against her jail sentence. Beautician Dionne Christie knifed Jevin Haig, 21, in the chest with his 12in hunting blade as they struggled in the bedroom of her flat in Falkirk. The mum of two, who had stood trial on a murder charge, but was convicted of the lesser offence of culpable homicide, was jailed for eight and a half years in May. Weeks later, Christie , 24, instructed her legal team to challenge the length of her sentence. Her appeal was lodged at the High Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh, but was refused by judges earlier this month. Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mail, Jevin’s family welcomed the decision. Jevin’s brother Harvey said: “She maintained her innocence for months, but the evidence spoke louder. “With the appeal refused, we take strength from knowing the original verdict stands and can now rebuild in peace without seeing her flaunt a happy life online while we deal with the consequences of her actions.” We told last month how Christie successfully challenged an attempt to use a computer simulation of the attack to convict her of murder. The killer, who ran her own beauty aesthetics business, had claimed her partner had accidentally stabbed himself following a struggle. Her legal team -challenged the inclusion of the simulation before it began in March, arguing it was based on “hearsay evidence and assumptions” and said applying ergonomics to a “physical altercation in the context of serious crime” would be unprecedented in Scots law. The High Court of Criminal Appeal i n Edinburgh ruled the simulation inadmissible because its operator, Dr David Usher, a consultant ergonomist, did not have enough -information about the attack circumstances for it to be reliable. Christie had been pregnant with Jevin’s child at the time of the June 2022 attack.