Penelope Jackson: row over bubble and squeak ended in murder
The 66-year-old's stabbing of her husband, David Jackson, became a test of courts' attitudes towards coercive control
It was a row with her husband over serving bubble and squeak during a birthday meal of lobster and champagne that Penelope Jackson identified as the moment that broke her. She took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed David Jackson multiple times before handing herself in to police.
The details were among those aired in a trial that has captured the public imagination for its insight into the complex motives of a retired accountant who killed her husband of 24 years, a retired army lieutenant colonel, at their home in a Somerset village. The trial was seen as a test of criminal courts' attitudes to claims of coercive control in domestic homicide cases.
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