{"id":141466,"date":"2021-10-12T08:51:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T08:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=141466"},"modified":"2021-10-12T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T08:51:28","slug":"abused-wife-knifed-husband-to-death-and-told-999-he-deserves-everything-he-got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/abused-wife-knifed-husband-to-death-and-told-999-he-deserves-everything-he-got\/","title":{"rendered":"Abused wife knifed husband to death and told 999 ‘he deserves everything he got’"},"content":{"rendered":"
A wife who killed her \u2018abusive\u2019 husband by stabbing him three times told a 999 call handler \u201cI killed my husband because I've had enough\u201d.<\/p>\n
Penelope Jackson, 66, stabbed David Jackson, 78, with a kitchen knife after claiming she couldn't put up with him anymore.<\/p>\n
The jury at Bristol Crown Court heard an 18-minute call between Jackson and a call handler, where she told them "I tried to stab him through the heart but he doesn't have one".<\/p>\n
During the call, Mrs Jackson claimed she stabbed him because she had enough of what she described as an \u201cabusive relationship\u201d.<\/p>\n
The couple had been married since 1996 and prosecutors said friends and family believed they had a happy and normal relationship.<\/p>\n
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Prosecutors said Jackson spoke calmly during the call, which was made straight after the stabbing on February 13 this year at their home in Berrow, Somerset.<\/p>\n
When an operator asked where her husband was, she said \u201cHe is in the kitchen bleeding to death with any luck."<\/p>\n
The call started with her husband telling the operator he had been stabbed before Mrs Jackson took the phone from him.<\/p>\n
She stated: "I killed my husband because I've had enough.<\/p>\n
"I might go and stab him again. I am in the lounge, he is in the kitchen bleeding to death with any luck."<\/p>\n
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Mrs Jackson repeatedly told operators that she would not help him because she was fed up with his \u201cabuse and the nastiness\u201d.<\/p>\n
She told the operator that she knows the call is recorded but said her husband \u201cdeserves everything he has got\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to the conversation between Mrs Jackson and the 999 operator, after being stabbed once her husband said she would not do it again so she stabbed him twice.<\/p>\n
Paramedics arrived at the scene and were also heard on the call.<\/p>\n
Mrs Jackson told them: \u201cI'll end up in prison but that is preferable to my life now."<\/p>\n
Police officers arrived and arrested her on suspicion of murder.<\/p>\n
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Mr Jackson couldn't be saved and died as a result of stab wounds, a post mortem later revealed.<\/p>\n
The court heard the couple had reportedly been on a Zoom call with their daughter and son-in-law and had a lovely meal before he "went off on one."<\/p>\n
The trial also heard that police had been called just before Christmas last year when he grabbed her by the arm and left her with bruises in a row sparked about the volume button on a remote control.<\/p>\n
When the defendant reported it to police at the time, she told them it was "out of character," Prosecutor Christopher Quinlan QC told the jury.<\/p>\n
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Prosecutor Quinlan told the trial: "She persistently refused to follow operator's instructions including the paramedic who came onto the call to try and save her dying husband.<\/p>\n
"Police attended with a doctor to try and his save life but the blood loss was too great."<\/p>\n
The jury heard the defendant had been charged with murder, which she denies, but she had accepted manslaughter.<\/p>\n
The trial, which is expected to last two weeks, continues.<\/p>\n