A woman who stabbed her husband to death during a drunken row over the stress of their buy-to-let portfolio has been cleared of murder.
Jennifer Parkinson, 65, wept in the dock as the jury found her not guilty of murdering her husband Michael, 63, at their home in Gosport, Hampshire, in 2010.
Parkinson said she had never intended to seriously hurt her husband, a former head teacher, but admitted manslaughter.
Judge Guy Boney QC at Winchester Crown Court remanded Parkinson in custody and she will be sentenced on May 4.
Mr Parkinson was stabbed three times at the £330,000 flat on March 22, 2010.
The court heard that the couple had had a violent argument fuelled by alcohol, when Mr Parkinson blamed his wife over the purchase of about 20 properties in Rutland.
Parkinson said this had upset her as the pair had promised not to blame each other.
They had been losing £4,000 a month due to mortgage interest rates and costs incurred after flooding, and had to live in a motor home for a time.
However, they had turned the corner financially, and were making £2,000 profit a month.
Parkinson told the court that during the row, she had bitten her husband on the arm and had brandished a knife.
The most severe stab wound entered Mr Parkinson's body under his left arm, fracturing a rib, puncturing his lung and damaging his aorta. He died in hospital.
She told jurors: “There was no way I wanted him seriously injured or dead. I will miss him for the rest of my life.”
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