A woman who fatally stabbed her husband of nearly 30 years was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday after a court found her guilty of murder, rejecting her claim that his death was an accident.Daryl Berman, 72, was ordered to serve a minimum of 12 years before becoming eligible for parole for the killing of her husband, retired businessman David Berman, 84.Following the sentencing, police released body-camera footage recorded at the scene, in which Berman appeared to question why officers had arrived.When a paramedic asked if she was alright, Berman replied: “I’m alright but I’m not.“I don’t think it’s hit me yet, but it will hit me because I can’t cry and I’m just covered in blood from doing his heart.”On noticing a police officer, she then said: “Why are the police here?“You don’t think I’ve murdered him, do you?”She later gave an officer her name before asking herself: “Why am I so calm?”During the trial, Berman claimed her husband had “stumbled” while carrying her lunch tray, causing a small paring knife to penetrate his chest when he fell.The prosecution argued that Berman had deliberately stabbed her husband during an altercation. A jury rejected her account that the incident was accidental and found her guilty of murder.Passing sentence, Judge Tina Langdale said she accepted that Berman had not intended to kill her husband but had deliberately stabbed him and intended to cause him serious harm, even though she had “immediately regretted” her actions.‘I am satisfied that something must have happened that caused you to lose your patience or temper and caused you to attack David with a knife that you had earlier used for your lunch,’ Langdale said, as cited by the Daily Mail.The trial at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard that Berman, who was Mr Berman’s third wife, was accused by the prosecution of displaying little emotional reaction following her husband’s death.The court heard that she wrote the words “bye, bye” on a wall calendar on the date of Mr Berman’s death and later entered the kitchen of their home in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, where he had sustained the fatal injury.Prosecutors cited her conduct after the incident as part of the evidence presented during the trial.
