The jury, in the trial of a Kewstoke woman accused of stabbing her partner to death at the caravan park where they lived, has retired to consider its verdict.

41 year old Sharon Hodges denies deliberately stabbing Philip Gibbs at Sand Bay last November.

Bristol Crown Court heard she'd told police she just wanted to scare him with a knife after he threatened her ... but the blade went into him as he lunged forwards ... while prosecutors claim she cut her own wrists afterwards to make it look like self-defence.