Peterborough woman killed husband with dressing gown cord after 'petty' row

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Court hears the pair were married for more than 30 years and lived in a 'tidy and well-kept house'.

BBC News, CambridgeshireLorraine Smith killed Andrew Smith, 70, at their Peterborough home in December 2021 after a "trivial" argument.

Smith was originally charged with murder, but prosecutors accepted her plea to the lesser charge after concluding "the killing in this case is explicable by the illness which she was suffering". She then made another call in the early hours of Monday which led police and paramedics to attend and Mr Jackson said "it would appear that [Mr Smith] had been dead for some time"

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