Family's bombshell claim after woman is charged with stabbing her lover to death in fatal fight: 'Rollercoaster all our lives'

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The mother of an Indigenous woman charged with murdering her ex-boyfriend has claimed her daughter had suffered a series of domestic violence attacks prior to the alleged tragedy.

Nikita Kirby, 31, was arrested near her sister's home in Matraville in Sydney's eastern suburbs on Tuesday night after emergency services were called at about 6.15pm.

Moments earlier her ex-boyfriend Scott Wallace, 37, had been found allegedly suffering from stab wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

'It's been a rollercoaster of domestic violence in all our lives,' Nikita's mum Ruth Kirby said outside Waverley Local Court on Thursday morning.

'And Nikita has put up with it for a long time.'

Ms Kirby said she feared her daughter was going to be stabbed by her ex-lover.

'She had bruises all over her,' she said. 'She's a mess. We all are. 

'He bashed her and she had bruises all over her. Does a woman deserve that or should she put up with it? She doesn't deserve this.

'He was told not to go there and he still went there.'

Ms Kirby said the family had already suffered tragic heartbreak this year when her niece had been murdered. 

'These things are still happening to us,' she said. 'We're going through a lot of stuff. 

Kirby, 31, was charged with murder (domestic violence) on Wednesday and was refused bail and did not appear at Waverley Local Court on Thursday.

She was supported by friends and family.

According to friends, the mum-of-one had been in an on-again, off-again relationship with Wallace who had a long history of drug and alcohol abuse.

In 2021, an AVO was taken out against Mr Wallace by police for Ms Kirby’s protection. That AVO lasted for two years and ended in October.

On Wednesday morning, the single-storey brick home remained a crime scene with officers from Eastern Beaches Police Area Command and the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad, as well as forensic police investigating.

Residents of Murrabin Avenue told Daily Mail Australia they saw a woman running up and down the dead-end street in the aftermath of the stabbing.

'She was running down the street screaming,' a resident said.

‘It’s a quiet family-friendly street, we’re shocked this has happened on our doorstep.’

A local business owner said they had seen the pair arguing outside the Matraville hotel earlier that afternoon.

The matter was adjourned to August 6 in Downing Centre.