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, th ...