Asylum seeker admits killing wife in front of his daughter - but BEGS not to be sent home
AN asylum seeker is fighting a legal battle against deportation after admitting to choking his wife to death while his young daughter watched on.
The man is resisting deportation
The 25-year-old admitted to suffocating his wife after she came home with a red rose, leading him to believe the young woman had cheated on him.
He then tore up the rose, and sent a picture of it to the man he accused of the affair.
Prosecutor Adam Rullman said:“We have checked that his statement is consistent with the technical evidence and it is.
Police (not pictured) found his wife on the floor after the horrific attack
“He has explained he believed she was meeting another man and that she wanted a divorce.
“After that he went drown to the lake to drown himself.”
But as he was about to leave his home to commit suicide, he realised that his daughter was witness to the crime.
The wife came home with a rose, leading her husband to think she was having an affair
During a police interrogation he said: “Then I went back to the neighbours and asked them to call the police so they would arrest me.”
The police later found the 22-year-old victim dead on the floor of the asylum accommodation in Mariannelund, Sweden.
But despite admitting to the crime and the horrific ordeal of his daughter, the man is fighting a legal battle to remain in Sweden because he is concerned about what may happen to him when he returns to his home country.
The incident took place in southern Sweden
His lawyer said: “It is my client’s opinion that the incident should be classified as manslaughter and he is opposed to expulsion [from Sweden] - mainly because of what would happen to him if it was enforced.”
The suspect is currently undergoing a psychiatric evaluation before his trial proceeds.