‘I’ll make your life a living hell!’
The husband who stabbed his wife then took photos of her body Jenny McKay knew what was coming and predicted her fate...
In the quieter moments of the day, Jenny McKay would write in her diary. After studying journalism at university, Jenny, 33, had a natural talent with words. She’d write poems that her loved ones adored. But they had no clue of the dark secrets she shared in her journal about how she feared her husband Jason and the arguments they had.
‘He said he was going to make my life a living hell and bury me the way I’ve buried him,’ she wrote. Jenny was frightened.
It was August 2017, and the home the couple shared in Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan in Canada, was a hotbed of tension. After marrying in 2012, they struggled to build a life together. Jason McKay had two children from a previous relationship and even they later admitted it was a fractured marriage. Jenny’s family in Nova Scotia thought she was happy as she rarely visited and, if she did, McKay would come with her. They now realise it was a sign of his controlling behaviour.
Jenny had a big laugh and a smile to match. She was artistic, creative and compassionate. She loved cooking, gardening, music and art.
Her siblings were just waiting for her to find her calling in life. They didn’t know that Jenny was writing in her diary about the verbal and physical abuse she was suffering. But she did tell somebody.
She confided in friends that she was in an abusive marriage and admitted she was trying to leave McKay. ‘He hits me a lot,’ she said in a text to one former colleague. ‘I’m done.’
Jason McKay was taking antidepressants and sleeping tablets, as well as drinking heavily, which Jenny said turned him into a ‘monster’. Witnesses had seen him hit her, and she looked into renting a room to escape.
ABUSE AND THREATS
By the end of the month, the police were involved. On August 27, Jenny called 911 to say McKay was drunk and abusive.
She said she wanted him removed from the house as he was threatening his teenage daughters. When the police arrived, Jenny didn’t want to make a formal complaint. She admitted to an officer she didn’t feel safe and was looking