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  "textContent": "To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideo\n\nUp Next\n\nPrevious Page\n\nNext Page\n\n**A woman who stabbed her own sister to death and stole her diamond-encrusted gold Rolex watch is facing a life sentence.**\n\nNancy Pexton, 70, slashed and stabbed sibling Jennifer Abbott 10 times and then left her body for three days in her flat in Camden, north London, on June 10 last year.\n\nShe was found guilty of murder at the Old Bailey today.\n\nPexton, who had ‘spent her life on benefits’ and had become homeless, was jealous of her film director sister and had called her ‘evil’, jurors heard.\n\nWhen the family became worried about Ms Abbott, Pexton sent her own daughter to check on her knowing she would find her aunt dead.\n\nMs Abbott’s Corgi Prince was found alive shut in the bathroom, having survived there for three days.\n\nNancy Pexton has been found guilty at the Old Bailey of murdering her film director sister Jennifer Abbott (Picture: Metropolitan Police/PA)\n\nJennifer Abbott was murdered at her flat in Camden, north London, on June 10 last year (Picture: Metropolitan Police/PA)\n\nPexton appeared in court via videolink from HMP Bronzefield where she sat clasping her hands and sobbing as the jury returned its verdict.\n\nUS citizen Ms Abbott, 69, was last seen alive on a doorbell camera as she returned from walking her corgi Prince at 7.36am that day.\n\nPexton spoke to her by phone at 11.36am and travelled by bus to her Mornington Place flat at 12.45pm, leaving an hour later.\n\nWhile did not give evidence, she told police she had left her sister alive and well suggested a drug dealer who lived in the same block visited her later that day.\n\nOn June 13, a neighbour used a scaffolding pole to break down Ms Abbott’s door after becoming concerned he could not hear her dog barking.\n\n##  Latest London news\n\n  * Influencer dies after Soho crash that left her in a coma\n  * Map shows London Marathon 2026 route and road closures for today\n  * Woman and child die after being pulled from water in London park\n\n\n\n_**To get the latest news from the capital, visit Metro's** London news hub._\n\nCourt artist drawing of Nancy Pexton appearing in court (Picture: Elizabeth Cook/PA)\n\nHer niece Mai Pexton had been seen banging on the door and screaming for her ‘auntie’.\n\nMs Abbott’s partially naked and decomposing body was found on the living room floor with gaffer tape over her mouth.\n\nShe had been stabbed 10 times to the neck and chest. She had a large, gaping ‘slash-type’ wound across her neck and gaffer tape across her mouth, jurors heard.\n\nMs Abbott’s corgi had been trapped in the kitchen and was freed by firefighters.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Ms Abbott had sustained several stab and slash wounds and a single defensive wound to the right hand.\n\nHer Rolex watch, a gift from her son Brad Carlson which she never took off, was missing.\n\nIt was later recovered by police from Pexton’s bag after they visited her in hospital.\n\nWhen quizzed about it, Pexton said she had been given it to ‘look after’.\n\nHowever, prosecutor Bill Boyce KC suggested Ms Abbott would never have given away her ‘prized Rolex watch’.\n\nHe told jurors: ‘The reality, of course, is that the defendant took the watch having stabbed her sister to do so.’\n\nThe diamond diamond encrusted Rolex owned by Jennifer Abbott (Picture: Metropolitan Police/PA)\n\nIn the two days after Ms Abbott’s death, there were numerous missed calls from her son Mr Carlson, who lives abroad.\n\nMr Carlson described a ‘bubbling’ resentment between his mother and aunt.\n\nGiving evidence via videolink, Mr Carlson said: ‘There was interaction and sometimes anger and hostility between my mother and Nancy, there was resentment seemingly bubbling up.’\n\nJurors also heard how Ms Abbott told her nephew that she was scared for her safety as Pexton was ‘capable of anything’.\n\nIn November 2024, she had shared a message in which Pexton told her: ‘You know I was planning to kill you but it was just a thought, I would never hurt you.’\n\nThe message went on to warn Ms Abbott to ‘watch your back from those you conned and stole money from’.\n\nPexton wrote: ‘You never know they could get you while you walking your dog. Be careful honey, I worry about you. You so many enemy (sic).’\n\nAt the time, Ms Abbott asked her nephew if she should take out a restraining order.\n\nFurther evidence of Pexton’s resentment were found in a series of notes on her phone in which she referred to thinking about killing her ‘evil’ sister and complained about other family members.\n\nPexton later told police she had just being ‘venting’ her feelings and that she really loved her sister.\n\nShe claimed to have no memory of the 90 minutes covering the time spent in her flat.\n\nOn that day, she had been wearing a black cowboy hat and blue dungarees which were covered in her sister’s blood ‘from top to bottom’.\n\nJurors were told that Pexton had asked one of her daughters to take the clothes away and wash them or throw them away.\n\nPexton, who has two grown-up daughters, went on to explain that the blood got on her clothes when she hugged her sister who had suffered a nosebleed.\n\nBut Mr Boyce said scientific analysis did not support her claim and suggested Ms Abbott’s blood went everywhere when Pexton slashed and cut her.\n\nAn examination of Ms Abbott’s flat also showed evidence that someone had tried to ‘clean up’, he said.\n\nFollowing the guilty verdict, Judge Anuja Dhir KC adjourned sentencing to Friday.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Sister guilty of murdering film director sibling over diamond-encrusted Rolex"
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