Somerset woman stabbed husband to death in row over birthday meal, court hears

Penelope Jackson, 66, admits manslaughter but denies murder, saying husband was abusive

A retired accountant who killed her abusive" husband has told a jury she stabbed him to death after a row over a birthday meal.

Penelope Jackson, 66, said she took a new kitchen knife upstairs to kill herself but instead attacked her husband, former army Lt Col David Jackson, 78, when he told her she was pathetic.