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A “manipulative” woman has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 24 years for the revenge murder of her “kind, popular and respected” former brother-in-law outside the pub he ran in Maidstone. In what was the second violent, fatal tragedy to befall the Hare and Hounds in as little as 13 months, Stephanie Langley viciously and repeatedly knifed landlord Matthew Bryant \- described as “everyone’s friend” – while he was phoning police to report her for threatening to kill him. Jurors at Maidstone Crown Court were able to witness his last moments alive from chilling CCTV footage overlaid wit…