A WOMAN who confessed to stabbing her husband of 24 years is the subject of a new Channel 5 documentary. Penelope Jackson is spending the rest of her life behind bars for the brutal attack. Here’s what we know about her.
Penelope Jackson was a retired accountant, and married to 78-year-old David, who had been a lieutenant colonel in the army. The pair had lived in Germany and France, before eventually settling in Berrow, Somerset. David and the then 66-year-old Penelope had been married for 24 years at the time of the murder.
A number of startling details were revealed during the trial. Before meeting the victim, Penelope married her first husband at the age of 18. She had two daughters with him, before leaving after claiming he turned violent.
The court heard how Penelope's second husband had been gay, and that her third husband had taken his own life when he discovered she was having an affair with the victim. Penelope’s youngest daughter, Isabelle, was fathered by her third husband, but was raised by David as his own from birth and later adopted by him. She had worked in administration and accounts in the Royal Air Force and then later the army, where she met him.
David had two daughters and a son from his first marriage, which ended when he began an affair with his second wife, Sheila Taylor. The victim's marriage to Taylor then ended when he started his affair with Penelope. Shortly after David and the victim married in 1996, his son Gavin took his own life.
The coup.
