Penelope Jackson has been found guilty of murder on 29 October 2021 after stabbing her husband to death following a row over a birthday meal.
Jackson told the jury her husband was coercive and physically violent towards her, pushing, shoving, and strangling her. She said Mr Jackson valued loyalty and she would have felt disloyal if she disclosed to anyone the abuse she had suffered at his hands.
The court heard she had called the police in December last year when he smashed a glass door with a poker during a row over the TV remote control. Jackson's daughter, Isabelle Potterton, told the court Mr Jackson was last violent towards his wife "more than 20 years ago".
Jackson, 66, attacked 78-year-old David Jackson with a kitchen knife at their home in Somerset on 13th February 2021. She stabbed Mr Jackson, her fourth husband, three times with a kitchen knife at their home in Berrow.
The killing followed a row over a serving of bubble and squeak with a gourmet meal bought for them by their daughter. The pair had eaten the meal with their daughter and son-in-law, Isabelle, and Tom Potterton, on a Zoom call as the birthday took place in lockdown.
Mr and Mrs Potterton told the court they believed the row had blown over before the call ended. But later, Mr Jackson called the emergency services after he had been wounded, and his wife stabbed him again while he was on the phone.
He was heard screaming in pain as she drove the knife into him for the final time.
Jackson then took over the call, saying: "I've killed my husband, or tried to, because I've had enough." She then told a call handler her husband of 24 years was "bleeding to death with any luck."
Bodycam footage, released by the police when they went to the couple's home on 13 February, she told officers "I stabbed him, I've had enough" and that she "should have stabbed him a bit more."
Also, Penelope told a 999 call-handler that she had tried to stab David through the heart but that “he doesn’t have one.”
On Friday 29 October 2021, a jury of eight women and four men found Jackson guilty of murder before being sentencing her to a minimum of 18 years behind bars in the same afternoon at Bristol Crown Court.
Judge Martin Picton said that she had shown "not a shred of remorse" for the killing and had sought to portray her husband as a "monster". "Whilst there was no doubt, as in any marriage, points of friction that the lockdown would have exacerbated.
I have no doubt that he was nothing like the person you have claimed ... You took the life of another human."
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