She allegedly left him to bleed out after being stabbed
A woman who is on trial for stabbing her husband of 24 years reportedly said that “he deserves everything he gets” and that she is “happy to accept everything that’s coming [her] way”, a court was told.
David Jackson was allegedly stabbed by his wife Penelope, 66, in the kitchen of their home in Berrow, Somerset, on February 13 this year.
The 78-year-old managed to phone emergency services to say he had been knifed and could be heard screaming in pain as Jackson allegedly drove the blade into him for the final time, Bristol Crown Court heard.
Penelope Jackson then reportedly took the phone from her incapacitated husband and rather calmly said, “I’ve killed my husband, or tried to, because I’ve had enough”, Metro reported.
When prompted for her husband’s location, Penelope replied, “He’s in the kitchen bleeding to death with any luck.”
The jury at her murder trial heard the telephone conversation in full. Jackson repeatedly refused to help her dying husband, saying that despite having some “holes in him,” she was not going to help him.
“He deserves everything he gets’ she said in the phone recording, before adding: “I’ll accept everything that’s coming my way.
“I’ll end up in prison, which is preferable to my life right now.”
When prompted by the phone operator to stop the bleeding as they didn’t want Jackson to die, Penelope Jackson is said to have replied, “I do”.
In the police car she then said: “I know what I’ve done and, if I’ve not done it properly, I’ll be really annoyed.”
Friends of the couple described their relationship as “nothing out of the ordinary” and insisted that “they would occasionally disagree, argue, and bicker, but it never lasted long.”
Penelope Jackson said that following an argument over the TV remote, she locked her husband in the conservatory to calm down. However, using a fire poker, he broke back in.
Prosecutor Christopher Quinlan QC said that Penelope Jackson was calm and collected when she attacked her husband.
“There is a difference, though, between a relationship with some occasional difficulties and one that is abusive, coercive, and controlling.
“I use these words because these are the words Penelope Jackson used to describe her relationship with David Jackson – he was abusive, she said, he was controlling, and he coerced her.”
The trial is expected to last three weeks.
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