Murder and manslaughter

A Sydney woman has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment almost two decades later after brutally murdering her mother and faking a home invasion.

Isabela Caroline Camelo-Gomez pleaded not guilty to killing Irene Jones however was found guilty by a jury in the NSW Supreme Court for the murder she committed on November 2^nd, 2001, after being found in a pool of her mother's blood.

"She died as she lay on the kitchen floor from the combined effects of ligature strangulation and the stab wound inflicted upon her," Justice Helen Wilson said.

The 48-year-old had devised a plan to brutally murder her mother by strangling and stabbing her, blaming the events on a home invasion that did not occur.