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Wife Jailed for Husband's Stabbing Murder
3 Jul
Summary
- Wife jailed for murder after stabbing husband with kitchen knife.
- She initially claimed her husband fell on the knife.
- A post-mortem revealed the stab wound was non-accidental.
A woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband, David Berman, 84, who was suffering from dementia. Daryl Berman, 72, initially told police that her husband had accidentally fallen on a kitchen knife on March 13 of last year at their home in Prestwich, Manchester.
The court heard that the couple had been married for 27 years and, to outsiders, appeared to have a happy and loving relationship. However, suspicions arose regarding the nature of Mr. Berman's fatal injury, which was later determined by a post-mortem examination to be non-accidental. This led to Daryl Berman's conviction for murder in a retrial.
During sentencing, the judge stated that while the exact trigger for the attack remained unknown, it was clear Daryl Berman had attacked her husband with severe force. The judge was satisfied that the intent was not to kill but to cause grievous bodily harm. The victim's children expressed deep grief and a sense of betrayal, unable to say a proper goodbye.
Investigators confirmed that Daryl Berman's initial account of a tragic accident was disproven by forensic evidence. Detective Inspector Alex Wilkinson commented that the person Mr. Berman trusted most cruelly cut short his life, with the post-mortem examination revealing the truth behind the fabricated story.
