Our thanks to Jeff for this. Extracts:

“Daryl Berman told police that David Berman, 84, had stumbled while he took a lunch tray into the kitchen of their home in Prestwich, Bury, on 13 March last year. [J4MB: The chances of a knife on a tray being at the necessary angle to the heart after a stumble, and being driven into the chest with the necessary force to kill, are miniscule.]

Berman, 72, claimed her husband of 27 years had said, “It’s OK, I slipped” before she heard a groan and she ran in to discover him face down and covered in blood…

Officers spoke to Berman on the driveway of her home and she said: “You don’t think I murdered him do you?”

She was said to be “very calm and matter of fact”, the prosecution said, and also had little blood on her, despite stating she had rolled Mr Berman over…

Sentencing Berman to a life term, Judge Tina Landale told her: “It appears something happened between you where David went to the floor and you stabbed him in the chest with severe force.

“You have never given a truthful account of what happened. I am satisfied something must have happened to cause you to lose your patience or temper and begin to attack David with the knife you had earlier used to prepare your lunch.

“Whatever the trigger was is unknown.

“I am sure you immediately regretted what you had done [J4MB: How can the (female) judge be ‘sure’? The killer’s calmness suggests otherwise.] and tried to help him and called for an ambulance, and followed instructions to resuscitate him.

“I am satisfied that you did not intend to kill David, [J4MB: How can the judge be ‘satisfied’?] rather your intent was that he suffer really serious bodily harm.”

The judge added: “This was a domestic incident [J4MB: The murder of a souse is a ‘domestic incident’?] against a background of a decades-long happy marriage.”

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