Sister's Murder Trial: War, Resentment, and a Stolen Rolex

0:00On April 16th, a 70-year-old woman named Nancy Pexton is on trial for allegedly murdering her older sister, Jennifer Abbott, a. 69-year-old film director and her Camden flat last June 13th. Prosecutors say Pexton slit Abbott's throat, taped her mouth shut with gaffer tape, left her and just her underwear, and stole a diamond encrusted. Rolex watched worth 70,000 pounds. The victim's corgi dog was found alive days later, locked in the kitchen. The sister shared a dramatic family history, fleeing the 1967 Six-Day War from the Middle East when Abbott was just 12. Nephew Faras Abu-Ka'i testified that Abbott carried him to safety and co-weight as a baby, raised him with their grandmother, then moved to the US with. Her husband and son, Pexton had her daughter there, too, but headed to the UK soon after. Tensions had been building for years, with Abbott's son Brad Carlson describing angry messages from Pexton about feeling unappreciated and disrespected. He tried mediating, urging his mom to be

1:04gentler and expressing empathy for his aunt. Abbott had even told her nephew she feared Pexton, claiming she tried killing ex-boyfriends and hired dogs before. On the 10th, Pexton called Abbott nine times, the last chat over 15 minutes long. She was the last to see her alive before 2pm that day. The Rolex turned up in Pexton's bag at a hospital after her overdose arrest. On the 18th, she was homeless then, and claims Abbott gave her the. Watched to hold, and she only stopped by for depression pills, blaming a local dealer. The trial at the Old Bailey rolls on, peeling back layers of resentment in a family scarred by war and time, as jurors weigh the evidence.