‘Do you usually get murderers in M&S pyjamas?’
Wife’s ‘joke with police’after stabbing
A PENSIONER who stabbed her husband to death joked with police officers about being arrested in her Marks & Spencer pyjamas, a court heard yesterday.
Penelope Jackson, 66, was detained after she knifed 78year-old David three times in the kitchen of their family home and refused a 999 operator’s pleas to help him.
She was taken to Bridgwater station in Somerset where she talked openly about what had happened, the jury was told.
The former Ministry of Defence accountant asked officers: ‘Do you usually have murderers where they’re wearing Marks & Spencer pyjamas?’
She added: ‘I did it. Why I did it is a different issue. Am I sorry? No. And you can take that. Yeah, I’m not sorry. It’s been a long time coming.’
Officers were also told by the suspect: ‘I haven’t got the knife with me, don’t laugh.’ One replied: ‘I can assure you we’re not laughing.’ At one point, Jackson was advised to stop talking until she had legal representation.
But she continued, saying: ‘I know what I’ve done and why I’ve done it and if I haven’t done it properly I’m really annoyed. There’s no issue, I stabbed him, he’s an aggressive bully and nasty and I’ve had enough.’
Sitting in the dock yesterday, Jackson had her head in her hands at times as the court was shown footage of the night of her arrest.
At one point she was shown standing outside her front door, telling police: ‘I admit it all. He’s on the kitchen floor. With any luck, you’ll be too late.
‘I am totally compos mentis, whatever. He deserved it, so do not judge me.’
Jackson is said to have used an eight-inch filleting knife in the fatal attack.
The third day of the murder trial also heard that Jackson has a tattoo above her right buttock that reads ‘Property of David Jackson’.
A friend, Veronica Statham, told the jury she believed it was done ‘in a fit of pique’.
She added: ‘I got the impression she had done it to be a bit controversial. I think she said David was away at the time, something had come up, and she decided to go and have the tattoo. I think she said that David was unhappy about it.’
Earlier in the trial, Mr Jackson’s daughter from his first marriage, Jane, said the defendant ‘found baiting people fun’.
Mr Jackson was pronounced dead in the kitchen of the marital home in Berrow, near Westonsuper-Mare, Somerset, on the night of February 13.
Jackson denies murder but has admitted manslaughter. The trial continues.