Teresa Hanson, a 54-year-old woman, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her husband of 34 years by fatally stabbing him in the heart with a 2cm wide blade. This incident occurred at their family home during an argument, just three days after Christmas.

Teresa was found guilty of murder by jurors at Hull Crown Court, who deliberated for less than three hours. She is expected to serve a minimum of nine years in prison for the murder of her 54-year-old husband, Paul Hanson.

During the murder trial, Teresa claimed that she only wanted her husband to leave her alone when he started shouting in her face and using derogatory language while she was preparing a Mediterranean Tart for their dinner.

Prosecutors alleged just after 7 pm on December 28, she shoved the knife into Paul’s heart, severing his largest artery, and leaving blood “spurting out” of his body before he collapsed.

At around 7.05 pm, Mrs. Hanson phoned an ambulance where she told the call handler she’d stabbed her husband “out of anger” after “having a row”. She then went on to call the police and said that she had stabbed Paul after he came into the kitchen and told her to “f*** off” and called her a “b****”.

The woman claimed that she had no idea that her husband Paul was fatally injured, even though the knife would have been contaminated with "fatty deposits" and other material from his badly wounded body, the court. She claimed that she did not hear one shout, groan, cry, or moan from him. She was completely unaware that he had left a trail of blood and had collapsed in the dining room, Hull Crown Court heard. She even went back to chopping onions with the same knife.

During the police interview over the murder incident which took place at West Cowick, near Goole, East Yorkshire, Mrs Hanson declined to answer questions and merely gave a pre-prepared statement. She claimed that her husband walked into the knife after she turned round while holding it, but a pathologist claimed that this was "highly unlikely". Mrs Hanson claimed that the stabbing was an accident and that she did not intend to kill or seriously injure him.

When asked if the stabbing was just a "terrible accident" and if her husband was supposed “the love of your life” during three police interviews, she had repeatedly answered, “No comment”. She claimed that she had sometimes looked at the representative to ask if she should say something in answer to questions, but she was advised to say, "No comment".