Husband kills ex-con wife

Husband kills ex-con wife

TEMANGGUNG, Central Java: A man stabbed his wife to death on her return home after serving a six-month prison term for killing the child she conceived during an affair.

The suspect, identified only by his initial BSK, murdered his twenty-year-old wife, Fitria, during a quarrel on Monday afternoon.

"The victim died from multiple stab wound to her body. We counted 12 wounds on various parts on her body," said Temanggung Police chief Adj. Snr. Comr. Arief Dharmawan on Tuesday.

Fitria was released from prison last Friday. BSK asked her to come home and try to salvage their marriage. But Fitria refused his offer and returned to her home village of Sumurbandung in Magelang regency.

Her husband came to see her in Sumurbandung on Saturday, asking her again to come home to live with him. But Fitria refused.

On his second visit on Monday, the pair got into an argument. BSK lost his temper, picked up a kitchen knife and stabbed her repeatedly.

BSK was suffering from severe stress and police had as yet been unable to question him, said police chief Arief. -- Antara