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A retired accountant who knifed her husband three times told police that she ‘should have stabbed him a bit more’ as they tried to save him, a court heard.

Penelope Jackson, 66, is on trial at Bristol Crown Court accused of the murder of her 78-year-old husband David at their home in Berrow, Somerset, on February 13 this year.

Jurors at Bristol Crown Court have been shown police bodycam footage of her arrest and played audio of an 18-minute 999 call.

They have also heard the recording of a previous 999 call made following an incident weeks earlier in which Jackson called her husband ‘a pain in the arse’.

While being handcuffed, initially under arrest on suspicion of attempted murder, by officers attending the bungalow, she can be heard responding: ‘Hopefully it’s not attempted.’

After pointing them inside and telling them her wounded husband was ‘on the kitchen floor’, she commented to one of the officers outside with her that ‘with any luck they’ll be too late’.

When one then called for an ambulance ‘pronto’, saying ‘we need CPR’, Jackson remarked: ‘Oh, don’t. No, no, no, please don’t. Should have stabbed him a bit more…’

Jurors also heard Jackson telling one of the officers from the back of a police car that she stabbed her husband once ‘because he’s an aggressive bully, and nasty, and I’ve had enough’.

She then added: ‘And when he said, “you won’t do it”, I did it twice more. With any luck it’ll be too late.’

The officer intercedes to advise her not to speak about the incident, before Jackson goes on: ‘No, no, I have no intention of not agreeing to what I’ve done.

‘I know what I’ve done, and I know why I‘ve done it. And if I haven’t done it properly, I’ll be really annoyed.’

Another clip shows Jackson at the police station being further arrested on suspicion of murder after her husband was declared dead, to which she replies: ‘Oh good.’

As another officer wearing a face mask approaches to take her temperature, she replies: ‘That would just be really great, to get Covid on top of this.’

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Jackson denies murder but has admitted manslaughter.

She claims her husband was coercive and controlling and physically violent towards her during their 24-year marriage.

Giving evidence in her defence on Tuesday, she told the court her husband was so jealous when they first met that she got ‘property of David Jackson’ tattooed on her backside.

Jackson revealed her third husband took his own life after discovering she was having an affair with Mr Jackson.

She claimed Mr Jackson later became very jealous of her, telling jurors it would often lead to outbursts of violence despite her going to extreme lengths to ‘reassure him’.

Jackson added: ‘He was so jealous. He was so secure in some parts, but so insecure in others that he thought I would pack my bags any minute and rush off with another person.

‘I never gave him reason to think that.

‘I wanted to reassure him, so I tattooed “property of David John Jackson”.

‘I wanted to stop the constant jealousy and unfounded “what are you going to do?” All the things he was feeling, I felt it would persuade him.

‘No-one would go out and see me with that printed on my bum. He was very pleased and thought it was a very nice Christmas present.’

The trial continues.

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