'I thought I’d get his heart but he hasn’t got one': Penelope Jackson convicted of stabbing husband to death 

In an 18-minute phone call to emergency services, Jackson told the call handler her husband, a retired lieutenant colonel, was “bleeding to death with any luck” on their kitchen floor

Penelope Jackson giving evidence at Bristol Crown Court (Elizabeth Cook/PA)

A retired accountant who stabbed her husband of 24 years three times and told a 999 operator “I thought I’d get his heart but he hasn’t got one” has been jailed for a minimum of 18 years after being found guilty of his murder.

Penelope Jackson knifed her husband David, 78, at their home in Parsonage Road, in Berrow, Somerset, on February 13 this year.