Woman stabbed husband through chest during argument then 'calmly' carried on cooking dinner

A woman stabbed her husband through the chest before she returned to 'cooking onions with the same knife'. Paul Hanson was fatally wounded after he was knifed by his wife Teresa Hanson in the kitchen of their home in West Cowick, East Yorkshire, three days after Christmas last year.

Hanson, a former hairdresser, was found guilty of murder and has been sentenced to life in prison and must serve a minimum term of nine years. She had denied murder.

Hull Crown Court heard that Hanson, 54, phoned 999 and told operators she had stabbed Mr Handson after a row - but later said to police her husband had walked onto the knife when he walked towards her as she was cooking.

During her trial Hanson said she had simply pushed Mr Hanson away while holding a knife because he was shouting in her face, telling her to “throw his f****** tea in the bin”.

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She then went back to chopping onions and told the court she had no idea the knife had gone into Mr Hanson who was a construction manager. It was only until she heard the dog barking and followed a trail of blood that she found her husband, 54, collapsed on the floor.

Hanson had previously told police that her husband could be bad-tempered when he had had a drink, but the court heard she was clear that she did not stab him because he had been abusive to her and that it had been an accident. Hanson told her trial there had been no problems between the couple over Christmas, but that an argument had started that day when she told Mr Hanson to wait until he had eaten before having any more to drink.

She said she had drunk around two