There was a gasp from the public gallery, which was packed with David Jackson's extended family, when the verdict was read out.ĭuring the two-and-a-half week trial, the jury heard the Jacksons had rowed about the defendant serving bubble and squeak with a gourmet meal bought for them by their daughter during lockdown.
On Friday, Jackson was found guilty at Bristol Crown Court of murder after nearly 11 hours of deliberations. Penelope Jackson has been found guilty of murder. Jackson jotted down a confession on a notepad by the telephone, and when she was arrested on suspicion of murder, replied: "It's murder now, not attempted murder? Oh good."īut she would later deny murder, pleading guilty to manslaughter saying she had lost control following years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband.
She repeatedly refused to help the victim when the operator asked her to take steps such as apply pressure to the wound or throw him a towel to try and stem the bleeding.īodycam footage shows Penelope Jackson in the moments after she stabbed her husband. Sentencing her, judge Martin Picton said her attempt to paint her husband as an abuser had failed, and he criticised her for failing to show "a shred of remorse" over the murder. She was jailed for life this afternoon with a minimum term of 18 years at Bristol Crown Court. "He's an aggressive bully and I've had enough," she said.ĭavid Jackson was stabbed to death by his wife Penelope. In an 18-minute phone call to emergency services, Jackson told the call handler her husband, a retired lieutenant colonel, was "bleeding to death with any luck" on their kitchen floor.ĭuring her arrest she told police: "I should have stabbed him more. Penelope Jackson knifed her husband David, 78, a retired colonel, at their home in Parsonage Road, in Berrow, Somerset, on February 13 this year following a row over bubble and squeak being served during a birthday meal.
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