Woman killed sister at Camden flat and took Rolex, court told

A woman fatally stabbed her film director sister in the neck and snatched her diamond-encrusted gold Rolex watch, the Old Bailey has heard. Nancy Pexton, 69, is accused of murdering her older sibling, Jennifer Abbott Dauward - also known as Sarah Steinberg - at her flat in Mornington Place, Camden, north London, on 10 June. Three days later, a neighbour forced open Abbott's door after becoming concerned he could not hear her corgi barking. Abbott's body was found on her living room floor with a neck wound and gaffer tape over her mouth. She was not wearing her Rolex watch which she was "greatly attached to" and never usually took off, jurors were told. Opening the case on Thursday, prosecutor Bill Boyce KC said there was no evidence that Abbott was alive after Pexton visited her that day. The sisters had spoken by phone at 11:36 BST, Pexton had travelled by bus to her sister's flat at 12:45 BST and stayed for an hour. After allegedly killing her 69-year-old sister, who was nine months older than her, Pexton called her GP and said she had taken an overdose, Boyce told the court. She was taken to hospital by ambulance where she stayed before her arrest on 18 June. The court heard Pex

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