Matthew Bryant, 52, (pictured right with wife Caroline) was repeatedly stabbed outside the Hare and Hounds pub in Maidstone in Kent last September.
Jurors were today shown the moment when a former sister in law of a pub landlord admitted to police that she stabbed to him to death with a knife.
Mr Bryant can be seen inside the pub on the phone to police after his former sister-in-law had threatened to kill himLangley tells an officer after being arrested: 'I will tell you exactly as it happened; I took a knife and I killed him.'The court heard that Langley had been going through various personal and financial difficulties at the time which had placed her under a great deal of stress.
Despite previously being related by marriage, Mr Bryant's first contact with Langley in 21 years was when she had turned up at his pub in May 2023. 'I don't want to be told I'm going to be killed. I just sat down out of politeness, but she said to me three times 'I'm going to have you killed'. How can you respond to that?'
A few seconds later, Mr Bryant could be heard telling the operator: 'I have just been stabbed' while people, including his wife, went to his aid. Pub customer Eddie Williams said she then held the weapon over her head 'in a dagger motion' before plunging it 'with great force' into Mr Bryant's chest. Prosecutor Nina Ellin KC said Langley's former brother-in-law had become 'the focal point of her rage' by the time she returned to Mr Bryant's pub in September.
'You may think that her possession of that knife and her expressed intention to stab or kill him show that she intended to do just that when she set off in her car on September 11 to see him.
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