Wife-murderer sentenced

Wife-murderer sentenced

PAREPARE, South Sulawesi: The district court here sentenced Nurdin bin Lanco to five years in prison yesterday for killing his wife last year.

Earlier prosecutors had sought seven years imprisonment for the 38-year-old man, Antara reported.

Judge S. Sembiring said in the verdict that Nurdin chopped his wife, Saheri, to death with a sickle following a bitter argument in their house in Soreang subdistrict on Oct. 19 last year.

The tearful Nurdin, a father of two children, pleaded guilty and accepted the sentence. (pan)