Wife wrote 'bye bye' in calendar on same day she killed her husband, 'kissed' and lay with his body after telling police he accidentally fell on knife: Reports

A 71-year-old pistillate is connected proceedings successful the UK for allegedly murdering her 84-year-old husband with a room weapon she claims helium "slipped" onto, with section reports detailing however she admitted to penning "bye bye" successful a calendar — the aforesaid time helium died — conscionable hours later.

"It has got 'bye bye' and it has got 2 kisses, and it has got a heart," Daryl Berman testified connected Monday, according to the Manchester Evening News. "I enactment it connected astatine the extremity of the time erstwhile everybody had gone and I was acceptable to spell up to bed."

The March stabbing death of David Berman, Daryl Berman's husband, was initially ruled an mishap earlier an probe allegedly revealed his wife's alleged involvement. As a result, constabulary near David's assemblage successful the couple's location and ordered an undertaker to travel get it.

Daryl Berman described successful tribunal however she laic down with David Berman "at slightest 4 times" portion waiting for his assemblage to beryllium removed, the Evening News reports.

"I laic down adjacent to David," she reportedly testified, crying. "I kissed him and I stroked his arm. I did it rather a fewer times."

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Daryl Berman, who is charged with murder, allegedly told constabulary successful interviews that she was eating a chickenhearted crockery sandwich connected March 13 and had a weapon with her connected a nutrient tray erstwhile David Berman came successful and offered to instrumentality the tray into the room for her arsenic she was finishing up. Daryl Berman said that arsenic her hubby went into the kitchen, she heard "what sounded similar a stumble oregon a fall" earlier uncovering David Berman connected the ground, look down, with the weapon successful his thorax adjacent his close armpit.

"It was similar a stumble oregon a slip," Daryl Berman recalled successful court. "Then I heard different noise. It was similar a groan. I jumped up and screamed and ran in," she said.

Daryl Berman claims she recovered David Berman lying look down, making a "gurgling" sound, aft the alleged fall. There was "tons of blood" connected the ground, according to her statements to police, which she allegedly didn't announcement astatine first, the Evening News reports.

"I benignant of looked down, moved his caput a bit, and I thought 'what connected world is each this gravy? We don't person gravy,'" Daryl Berman allegedly recalled during 1 of her constabulary interviews. "It was the magnitude of blood. I've ne'er seen thing similar it successful my life. I got the daze of my beingness due to the fact that I didn't cognize wherever it was coming from."

The septuagenarian said she called constabulary aft uncovering David Berman, with a dispatcher talking her done performing "compressions" connected him and asking wherever helium was bleeding from.

"I said, 'I haven't got the foggiest,'" Daryl Berman allegedly recounted to police.

Asked successful tribunal Monday whether she killed her husband, Daryl Berman said, "Absolutely not," according to the Evening News.

A section aesculapian examiner who performed David Berman's autopsy took the basal past week and said Daryl Berman's communicative astir her hubby falling onto the weapon was "inconceivable," fixed the operation of the stab coiled and a "defensive injury" that was recovered connected 1 of his fingers.

"I deliberation successful wide terms, looking astatine the wide population, accidental stab wounds with knives are exceedingly rare," Dr. Philip Lumb said. "I personally person not travel crossed one."

Police person ne'er revealed a motive for David Berman's alleged murder. Daryl Berman's proceedings is scheduled to proceed this week.