Woman's chilling 10-word text to mum after 'stabbing husband of 15 years to death'

Christine Kekkonen has denied murdering her husband, who was recovered dormant astatine their location successful Baltonsborough, Glastonbury, connected May 9 this twelvemonth aft being stabbed successful the neck

A pistillate accused of stabbing her hubby to decease arsenic helium slept sent a chilling 10-word connection to her parent pursuing the fearfulness incident.

Christine Kekkonen, 36, has claimed she "can't remember" the infinitesimal she killed Henri Kekkonen, her Finnish hubby of 15 years, astatine their location successful Baltonsborough, Glastonbury connected May 9. Bristol Crown Court heard extracts from a constabulary interrogation successful which Mrs Kekkonen answered "no comment" to astir questions posed to her, but said she remembers "going into the kitchen" connected the night.

She told officers: "The lone happening I retrieve is going to the room to fume due to the fact that that is the lone spot I americium allowed to smoke." But the tribunal besides heard that Mrs Kekkonen texted her parent instantly aft the incidental telling her to nonstop constabulary to her location arsenic she had "done thing awful".

Mrs Kekkonen allegedly wrote successful a 10-word text: "Please nonstop the constabulary present now, I've done thing awful." She sent her parent the connection astatine astir 4.20pm connected the time of the killing, contacting her parent initially from her ain phone, and aboriginal her husband's. The tribunal heard she past called her and said: "I deliberation I’ve killed him, I’ve stuck a weapon successful his neck."

Police attending the Kekkonen location successful Glastonbury recovered Mr Kekkonen dormant astatine the country from a azygous stab coiled to the neck, jurors heard. Investigators did not uncover immoderate grounds of immoderate different important injury, including signs of blunt unit trauma oregon antiaircraft wounds.

They noted dense humor staining connected the couple's furniture astatine their Dunford Terrace bungalow, and recovered a weapon from the level of the chamber connected the left-hand broadside of the bed. Jurors heard that Mrs Kekkonen has a past of intelligence illness, and she told constabulary she occasionally "dissociates" and struggles to callback events of the time her hubby was killed.

She said during her constabulary interrogation that, if she doesn't instrumentality her psychiatric medicine she becomes "very ill", adding that she whitethorn besides acquisition "blackouts and panic attacks". She said: "I’m not really successful power of myself. It feels similar I tin beryllium physically contiguous but my caput is not contiguous if that makes sense."

She added: "Sometimes I don't retrieve a batch of the things and I get precise frightened erstwhile it happens. When I travel to, I deliberation I'm successful the location that I grew up in." The tribunal heard that, erstwhile she was taken into custody by officers, Mrs Kekkonen said: "I don’t merit to beryllium made comfy considering what I’ve done." And she aboriginal added: "I couldn’t assistance it." But she aboriginal denied saying this to police.

The proceedings continues, and is expected to past 10 days.