A woman who claimed she accidentally stabbed her husband in the chest with a kitchen knife has been found guilty of his murder.
But Alistair MacDonald KC told the jury that it was “theoretically possible for someone to fall or run onto a knife blade and thereby cause a serious injury but such injuries are extremely rare.”
Mr MacDonald said it was also difficult to understand how this happened in the way Hanson described when she is 155cm tall and the knife entered her husband’s body 129cm above the ground. The prosecutor said the pathologist who examined the body concluded that it was “highly unlikely that Mr Hanson simply walked on to a weakly grasped knife blade so as to cause a fatal stab wound of the type found in this case”.
Mr MacDonald said Hanson told the police that her husband could be bad-tempered when he had had a drink but she was clear that she did not stab her husband because he had been abusive to her.to the daily Crime UK newsletter. All the latest crime news and trials from across the UK.Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
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