Lisa texted her friends to 'keep a record' in case something happened to her. It did.

For years, Lisa Fenwick supported her boyfriend Anthony Eriksen while he was unemployed.

She was smart. Kind. Gentle. Helping others was just in her nature.

A former neighbour and friend described the 59-year-old as someone who "never had a bad word to say about anything".

"She'd just make me laugh and [was] someone that you're happy being around. Sort of cool, calm, collected… she listened," Jeremy Maspero told the Sydney Morning Herald.

On April 9, 2023, Fenwick's body was found in her Sydney apartment. According to crown prosecutors, she had just returned from an evening dog walk when she stepped inside her home and was stabbed to death by her partner.

They say Eriksen, 63, repeatedly stabbed her in the heart and lungs with a kitchen knife that was found in the sink with blood on the blade.

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Fenwick and Eriksen had been in a long-term de facto relationship. But she was trying to get free.

In the months before her death, the NSW Supreme Court was told, Fenwick texted close friends about her frustrations and concerns with Eriksen.

"Right now my feelings are I really hate him and I wish he was out of my life," she texted one friend in September 2022.

In December, she messaged again saying she was sick of Eriksen and did not want to pay for his lifestyle anymore.

Jurors in the murder trial were told the unemployed 63-year-old was financially dependent on Fenwick while they lived together at their Mascot apartment.

When Fenwick was made redundant in December 2022, it put further financial stress on her and the relationship.

In February 2023, just months before her death, Fenwick told her friend she was going to seek advice from a women's legal aid service about getting another unit without Eriksen.

"I am fearful of Tony. That is why I am telling you this," she texted her friend in March.

"I just (need) to have a record if something happens to me."

A month later, she was dead.

In the hours before her death, jurors were told, Fenwick sent Eriksen a text message with a link to a house-sharing website. She was insistent he moved out after supporting him financially for years.

The jury was told she was found lying in her own blood on the floor of a bedroom with a bloodied washcloth covering her multiple stab wounds.

Paramedics told the court they found her with several stab wounds to her chest, abdomen and right arm, which they deemed "incompatible with life".

Eriksen was wearing a bathrobe and had dried up blood on his face, wrist and right foot when the first responders arrived at the scene, the court was told.

In a triple-0 call, the jury heard Eriksen told the operator he had got into an argument with Fenwick, and he had "put a knife in her".

The jury deliberated little more than two hours on Tuesday before finding Eriksen guilty of murder.

Eriksen defended himself during the NSW Supreme Court trial this month after pleading not guilty to Fenwick's murder.

He will face sentencing at a later date.

- With AAP

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Feature Image: LinkedIn/lisamfenwick.