#Madrid : Man Commits Suicide After Killing His Wife

A man who killed his wife in front of his three small children in the Tetuán district of Madrid last Friday has committed suicide in prison.

Despite being close watch in the jail in Soto del Real where he was being held, 38 year old Ali Daghman from Morocco managed to hang himself after asking to use the bathroom while he was being transferred to a cell in the prison’s infirmary section. He killed himself using one of his socks tied around a fixed shower head on Monday night.

He gave himself up to police and confessed on Friday evening after his wife, Fátima E.F. aged 39, was found stabbed to death in the family home. The couple’s youngest child, a 10-day old baby, was admitted to hospital with hypothermia, while his two sisters, aged 3 and 5, have been provisionally taken into care.

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_33018.shtml

#Afghanistan : #CNN - Afghan woman's choice: 12 years in jail or marry her rapist and risk death

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/22/world/asia/afghanistan-rape/index.html

Daughter Kills Mother

Olubukola Adefisayo claims that she had endured a life of torture by her mother Photo: PATIENCE OGBO

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/5448671-147/Daughter_kills_mother___.csp

"I am the murderer, I am not the suspect, I will tell you the truth, I killed my mum because she is a witch," said 26-year-old Olubukola Adefisayo, who is in police custody for allegedly killing her 62 year-old mother, Adedoyin Adeife.

The suspect was arrested by the Aguda Divisional Headquarters Area C Surulere on August 21, after report reached the police that she had killed her mother at their Number 2/4 Bola Bumi crescent, Aguda, Surulere.

The suspect is a graduate of Accountancy from the Oklahoma University in the United States of America. She confessed to being a cocaine addict from the age of 9 and was sexually abused by her uncle at the age of 3.

"I have two children age 3 and 2, but I gave them up for adoption. When I came to Nigeria, I started working for my mum as an estate agent. But she will not pay me well. I got angry because she is very rich. I see her writing cheques in million to her sister, but anytime I asked her for money she will not give me.

"I am sane and I am the murderer, I killed my mum after I discovered that she is a witch and had been sleeping with our 12 year old house help, Segun," Miss Adefisayo said.

She said she was jailed in the US for attempted murder. "I was living in the US and one of my neighbours had an issue with me over the laundry machine. After that issue, I went to jail and I decided to come back to Nigeria."

Miss Adefisayo indicted her mother for her drug addiction. "My mum introduced me to cocaine at the age of 9 and since then I have been an addict. After taking my cracked cocaine one day, I had a flash back on how my uncle raped me when I was 3 years old. I began to cry and I asked our house help, Segun, if anybody had touched him in a way he does not like. Segun told me that my mum did and my mum had also given him cocaine.

"I said why should mum have sex with Segun and it got me mad, we used to be poor and suddenly, we became rich because my mum used Bunmi, my sister for money rituals."

The suspect said she used a sledged hammer to kill her mother. "Segun told me that my mum also initiated him into witchcraft. I got really angry. I used white clothes to cover the entire mirror in our house; I lit seven candles and waited for 9.45pm which is spiritual time. When my mum came in that night, I asked her if she was a witch, but she was reluctant. I threatened to kill her with the hammer and then she said yes she is a witch and she killed my sister.

"My mum tried to collect the hammer from me and we started fighting. I overpowered her and hit her with the hammer on the head, she just slumped and died," she said.

When the suspect saw that her mother had died, she said she told the house help to pour acid on the body.

Police spokesperson, Frank Mba confirmed the incident.

Mr. Mba said: "After committing the crime on August 19, the suspect took the house help and they went to lodge in a hotel. She put a call to her sister in the US telling her that she had killed their mother.

"The case was reported to the police two days later and they went to their house and saw the lifeless body of the victim.

"From her confession, it is a combination of many factors. She need a psychiatrist and we need to decide if she committed the crime in her lucid period or as a result of the drugs she has been taking.

"Meanwhile, the case is been handled by the homicide department in Panti."

#Turkey : The Worst Kind Of Domestic Violence - When A Mother Kills Her Own Children

Two children from Hampshire found dead in Turkey

Two children from Hampshire have been discovered dead in Turkey.

Yaanis Mellersh eight, and his sister Mira, six, were found in the seaside town of Soke on Friday along with their German mother, Elke Mellersh, 45.

The Foreign Office said it had been made aware of the deaths of two British nationals on Saturday.

The children were supposed to be in the custody of their father, Justin Mellersh, 46, from Lyndhurst. They were reported missing in February last year.

Authorities in Turkey are investigating the deaths and the Foreign Office said it was providing consular advice.

BBC News - Two children from Hampshire found dead in Turkey

Charles (Chuck) Stuart :from Reading, Massachusetts murdered his pregnant wife and inflamed racial tensions in the Boston area by concocting a fictitious African-American assailant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stuart_(murderer)

#SanBernardino : Estranged Wife Dead In Murder / Suicide Act

A 37-year-old man went to his estranged wife's home Tuesday morning and shot her to death before taking his own life, police officials said.

Police officers responded to a 9-1-1 call just before 8:15 a.m. at a home in the 1300 block of E. Hardt Street. The 9-1-1 caller told dispatchers that two adults were "down" inside the home...read more
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-san-bernardino-murder-suicide,0,4222382.story

#Ohio Executes Reginald Brooks For The Murder Of His Three Sons

Reginald Brooks’ execution was carried out. His time of death was 2:04 p.m.

An Ohio man who killed his three sons after his wife served him with divorce papers was executed Tuesday afternoon, after exhausting his final appeals, according to officials.

Reginald Brooks, who has spent nearly three decades on death row, was convicted of shooting to death each of his three sons, aged 11, 15 and 17, while they were in their beds in East Cleveland in 1982. His wife had served him with divorce papers two days before the killings.

Defense lawyers have argued that Brooks was a paranoid schizophrenic and suffered from mental illness before he killed his sons. He was denied clemency by both the Ohio Parole Board and Kasich.

Brooks, 66, was the oldest person put to death since Ohio resumed executions in 1999...read more

http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2011/11/ohio-executes-reginald-brooks.html

#Florida Executes Oba Chandler- Chandler Murdered A Mother Along With Her Two Daughters

More than two decades after tossing an Ohio mother and her two daughters overboard from his boat to their horrific deaths, Oba Chandler finally paid the ultimate price.

The 65-year-old convicted triple murderer was put to death by lethal injection late this afternoon at Florida State Prison in Starke.

He died as he has spent the last 17 years in prison -- alone. Chandler had never had a visitor during his time on death row. And that didn't change today.

Hal Rogers, husband and father of the victims, sat in the front row of the small viewing room outside the death chamber. On either side of him sat relatives and prosecutors who tried the case and sent Chandler to death row. Of the 32 witnesses, only his attorney in the death-appeals process, Baya Harrison, was there to support him.

A couple of feet in front of Rogers, Chandler lay on a gurney, his arms strapped down and a sheet covering nearly his entire body. Only his face and massive arms were uncovered.

"Inmate Chandler, do you have any last statement you'd like to make," the team warden in the room asked him.

Without opening his eyes or looking at anyone, Chandler said simply, "No."

The drugs to end his life began flowing at 4:08. He was pronounced dead 17 minutes later.

Though Chandler had nothing to say to witnesses before he was executed, he did leave a written statement behind.

"Oba Chandler last statement. You are killing a innocent man today."

It is not known how long before the execution that the note was penned.

Earlier in the day, between 10 and 11 a.m., Chandler, the smooth-talking con man who lured three tourists onto his boat and then killed them more than two decades ago, ate his final meal...read more

http://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com/2011/11/florida-executes-oba-chandler.html

British Man Kills Wife For Breaking His Star War Toys !

— a 30-year-old British man murdered his wife after finding she had smashed his Darth Vader action figures and then “ran sobbing to his mother who lived nearby,” reports the Mirror:

A Star Wars fan was yesterday jailed for life after murdering his wife in an alleged revenge attack for smashing up his cherished toy collection.

http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/british-man-kills-wife-for-breaking-his-star-wars-toys/

Husband Shocks Wife To Death - A Sex Game Gone Wrong !

A 37-year-old Lower Windsor Township man is charged with using electricity to shock his wife in what police describe as some "bizarre sex" that killed her inside the bedroom of their southern York County trailer.

Toby Taylor, 37, of the 100 block of Oak Leaf Court, was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment.

Late Wednesday night, police say they responded Taylor's home in the Restless Oak Village mobile home park for a reported electrocution that turned into a cardiac arrest.
Upon arriving, police found Kirsten Taylor, 29, unconscious and began to perform CPR. She was taken to York Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 11:25 p.m., according to the coroner's
office....read more


http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/2008/01/but-you-dont-plug-her-in-to-mains-you.html

#Buner : Newly Married Husband Kills Wife

A man killed his wife in the Sorra Wagaie area of Buner district on Wednesday.

According to Wagaie Police station Syed Rozey gunned down his newly-wedded wife Bakth-e-Siya for unknown reasons. “They were a newly-married couple but the husband did not like his wife from the beginning. He would often beat her and then send her back to her parents’ house,” said a neighbour of Rozey on condition of anonymity. Police have launched a search for the accused.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/289450/murder-in-buner-newly-married-husband-kills-wife/

#Nigeria : Wife Murders Husband

RESIDENTS of Ugbihoko quarters in Egor North East local government council of Edo state were thrown into mourning as one Mr. Daniel Iyamu, was found dead in cold blood, yesterday.
Mr. Iyamu, a Benin-based actor was reportedly murdered in his sleep by his wife, both of whom reside at No 1 Agonse Street, Ugbihoko quarters.

Daily Champion learnt that the deceased was found stone dead on his bed after neighbours forcefully broke his door open.

Sources said his children cried to neighbours that their father was yet to get up at about 10 am which prompted them to break the door....read more

 

http://allafrica.com/stories/201111101076.html

#India : Husband Murder's Wife Over Suspected Affair

Kinnathukadavu Police are searching for a 32-year-old man who allegedly murdered his wife by hitting her on the head with an iron rod.

Senthilkumar(32) suspected his wife Usha (25) whom relatives and neighbours claim often argued of having an extramarital affair. However, Police suspect that the man killed his wife while in an intense rage after yet another argument.

"It seems that they did not have a peaceful marriage, they fought violently and often neighbours had to intervene to restore peace," said Ravikumar inspector of Kinnathukadavu police station.

Senthilkumar was working as a helper at a private marriage. On Monday night, the couple went to bed after another row, the next day on waking he hit his wife on the head with an iron rod.

A murder case has been filed against Senthilkumar at the Kinnathukadavu police station.

http://news.oneindia.in/2011/11/09/coimbatore-police-hunts-a-murderer-who-kills-his-wife.html

#India : Woman Kills Herself And Daughters After Row With Husband

Ghaziabad, Nov 9: A 46-year-old woman poisoned her two daughters and consumed poison herself on Monday night, confirmed police.

Sunita Upadhyay allegedly mixed a lethal agricultural fumigant, aluminum phosphide in the dinner and gave it to her daughters. Rakesh Kumar Upadhyaya, the victim's husband and father works at Bhushan Steel. He was interrogated by the policemen.

"Upadhyaya said he came home from work around 7.30pm on Monday. He was not feeling well and also had a minor argument . He woke up around 5.30am and heard his wife and daughters vomiting. He rushed them to Sarvodaya Hospital, where they died soon after," said Jitendra Kumar Shahi, superintendent of police.

Dr Ashok Malik was quoted as saying, "If the patients had been brought in a little earlier they could have been saved. The poison had spread to almost all of their organs by the time they arrived."

"I really don't know what happened . There is discord in every family; we also had minor tiffs, but nothing more," said Upadhyaya.

Meanwhile, he admitted that his son had hung himself on Sept. 19, 2001. One of his daughter was working as a teacher and one was studying engineering.

http://news.oneindia.in/2011/11/09/woman-kills-herself-and-daughters-after-tiff-with-hubby.html

#Spain : Domestic Violence In Spain

Spain now has one of the highest rates of divorce in Europe with 1 in 2.3 marriages ending in divorce.  This equates to a marital break-up every 3.7 minutes.  To make matters worse, Spain has a shocking domestic violence problem, which yet again came to a head when four women were killed by their partners on ‘Black Tuesday’ (26^th February 2008).  This brought to 17, the number of women murdered by their partners by the end of February 2008 setting that year firmly on target to exceed the horrors of previous years.  Clearly, seismic changes are dangerously vibrating through Spanish society.

In fact, it is not surprising that tremendous pressures have been placed upon the old-fashioned, family values normally associated with Spain.  Suppressed by the long, deeply conservative dictatorship of Franco (1939 – 1975), Spain remained in a time-lock throughout the heady decades of North European liberalism between the 1960s and 1980s.  Flower power, the Pill, mobility of population and the sexual and social revolution of the First World largely bypassed Spain.  Indeed, until 1981 it was not even possible to get divorced legally

Suddenly, in 1978, Spain established a secular constitution on lines similar to the rest of democratic northern Europe.  This propelled the country into new uncertainties as previously unconscionable freedom and liberality were allowed.  This was enhanced by unimaginable wealth as the country dramatically accelerated from its position as thirteenth biggest economy in the world in 1973 to its present position as eighth.  All of a sudden, it was possible to get divorced, homosexuality was tolerated, incomes rose, personal expenditure increased and the equality of women became, at least in theory, acceptable...read more

http://www.culturespain.com/articles/on-the-rocks-divorce-and-domestic-violence-in-spain/

#Oregon :Vigil Held Last Night To Help End Domestic Violence

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Because nobody should have to die for love: Part 1

By Helen Silvis Of The Skanner News

October 20, 2011

Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne starred in the movie What's Love Got to Do With It? The film portrayed Ike and Tina Turner's relationship, destroyed by domestic violence.

In the last year, 27 Oregonians have lost their lives to domestic violence. Three others killed themselves after killing their partners. To remember the victims, and to draw attention to these preventable tragedies, the Portland’s Women’s Crisis Line is holding a vigil from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday Oct. 20, at Dawson Park in North Portland.

“It’s important that the community understands that we all play a role in ending domestic violence,” says Rebecca Nickels executive director of the nonprofit crisis line. “Often when we are talking about domestic violence people may feel overwhelmed and uncertain how they can make a difference.”

Rev. Lynn Smouse Lopez and domestic violence survivor, Anastacia Papadopulous will speak at the event along with family members and friends of slain teen Yashanee Vaughn.

The Crisis Line offered case management support to 350 people last year and fielded 23,000 calls, Nickels says.

“Some are from community members and professionals, but the vast majority are people experiencing domestic violence.”...read more

The Portland Women’s Crisis Line operates 24-hours a day at 503-235-5333.
http://www.theskanner.com/article/Vigil-to-Help-End-Domestic-Violence-Planned-for-Tonight-Oct-20-at-Dawson-Park-2011-10-20

http://www.theskanner.com/article/Vigil-to-Help-End-Domestic-Violence-Planned-for-Tonight-Oct-20-at-Dawson-Park-2011-10-20

#Turkey : Turkish Womans Murder Photo Sparks Outrage

Summary of story from Bloomberg, October 7, 2011

Haberturk, a leading Turkish newspaper, published a graphic photo of a stabbed woman on the front page of its print edition today, causing uproar on social media websites.

The photo shows a shirtless, bloodstained woman on a stretcher with a kitchen knife planted deep into her back.

The 38-year-old mother of two was murdered in the town of Manisa by her 45-year-old husband after leaving him to escape domestic abuse, Haberturk said.

According to a May 4 Human Rights Watch report: “Turkey’s flawed family violence protection system leaves women and girls across the country unprotected against domestic abuse.”

The report said Turkey has strong protection laws in place, yet: “gaps in the law and implementation failures by police, prosecutors, judges, and other officials [make the system] at times downright dangerous”.

The number of reported murders of women in Turkey has increased 1,400 per cent in the past seven years, according to the Istanbul Bar Association for Women’s Rights.

The Association also said that more than 85 per cent of all applications for divorce in Istanbul are related to violence.

http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/2011/10/turkish-womans-murder-photo-sparks-outrage/

#Turkey: Turkish women killed by abusive husbands

(File Photo)

Two more women were killed by their abusive husbands in separate incidents that arose in Ankara and Düzce this week, the Turkish media reported on Thursday. Four women in total have been killed by their abusive husbands over the last six days in various cities across Turkey.

 Two of the victims, Fatma Bağcı and Rengiye M., were shot dead by their husbands on Saturday and Wednesday.

Two of the victims, Fatma Bağcı and Rengiye M., were shot dead by their husbands on Saturday and Wednesday, whilst the latest incidents involved the abusive husbands stabbing their wives to death.

Rahime Yıldız Uçar, 21, was stabbed to death on the street by her abusive husband in Ankara on Wednesday. Her husband, Burhan Uçar, was handed over to police by local shopkeepers who witnessed the incident.

Rahime Yıldız Uçar, who worked as a cook at a shopping mall, married Burhan Uçar two years ago. However, after several severe instances of domestic abuse, the couple separated six months ago. Following this, Rahime Yıldız Uçar filed for divorce and moved into a new house with her 1-year-old son in the Eryaman neighborhood of the district of Etimesgut.

However, friends and family put pressure on Rahime Yıldız Uçar to drop the divorce case, telling her that she shouldn't break up with her husband because of their child. Rahime Yıldız Uçar gave into this pressure and went back to her husband.

On Monday, Burhan Uçar left his house after the couple had had a bad argument and did not return home. He then called his wife on Wednesday morning to ask if they could meet and discuss their marriage.

The couple met in 4. Etap Park on Eryaman TBMM Street, where they started arguing just minutes after they saw each other, during which Burhan Uçar pulled out a knife and stabbed his wife in the neck, heart and chest.

Burhan Uçar attempted to flee the scene of the incident, but local shopkeepers who witnessed the murder seized him and handed him over to the police. Rahime Yıldız Uçar died at the scene of the incident.

Burhan Uçar was then taken to the homicide unit of the Ankara Police Department, where he stated: "I loved my wife; however, we had many conflicts during our marriage.

I am a jealous person. She was seeing other men and she was seen with another man three days ago. When I heard about this, I left home. Today we met up in the morning, but she started insulting me. I lost my mind and do not remember the rest."

In a separate incident, a woman living in Düzce was stabbed to death after having an argument with her husband early on Thursday. Yılmaz T. stabbed his wife, Derya T., after the two argued.
After hearing loud shouting and screaming, neighbors of the family went over to the house and saw Derya T. unconscious lying on the floor. Derya T. was taken to Düzce Atatürk State Hospital, where she died. Her body was then taken to the hospital's morgue for an autopsy. Yılmaz T., who fled the scene of the incident, was apprehended by the police.

Cihan news agency

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haberYazdir&ArticleID=75467&tip=

Domestic Violence no longer to be prosecuted in Kansas to pay for austerity measures..by Lisa Ansell.

I wish I was joking. I can't even go 'it's those crazy yanks', because we slashed domestic violence services as a first point of call, and ensured that the link between working and surviving was broken, so that mothers would find themselves a man. 

Social workers have been screamin for months that the thresholds of risk for the children they work with, are getting higher and higher. Those in teams for over 11s, where the thresholds of risk were already unacceptably high so that use of expensively provided private placements was avoided mighgt have thought it couldn't get much worse for their kids. THey are now dropping off the radar altogether.

To thunderous silence and while our political parties and their supporters go out of their way to pretend these women and children don't exist. 

The world over, women and children hit first, because the silly wee boys playing politics and war can't see them.

http://lisaansell.posterous.com/domestic-violence-no-longer-to-be-prosecuted

Domestic Violence And It's Effects On Women And Children

This video was created as an assignment for a class called Self Defense for Women. We recognize that men are also victims of domestic violence, and women can be perpetrators. However, for the purposes of this assignment we focused on women and children.

Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence ?

On February 12, 2009, Muzzammil Hassan informed police that he had beheaded his wife. Hassan had emigrated to the United States 30 years ago and, after a successful banking career, had founded Bridges TV, a Muslim-interest network which aims, according to its website, "to foster a greater understanding among many cultures and diverse populations." Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III told The Buffalo News that "this is the worst form of domestic violence possible," and Khalid Qazi, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council of Western New York, told the New York Post that Islam forbids such domestic violence. While Muslim advocacy organizations argue that honor killings are a misnomer stigmatizing Muslims for what is simply domestic violence, a problem that has nothing to do with religion, Phyllis Chesler, who just completed a study of more than 50 instances of North American honor killings, says the evidence suggests otherwise. — The Editors

http://www.meforum.org/2067/are-honor-killings-simply-domestic-violence

Defence law changes for killing after domestic abuse

"Loss of control" caused by a fear of serious violence can now be a defence in murder cases

 

A change to the murder law has come into force, allowing people who faced domestic violence to claim they were forced to kill their abuser.

If they can prove they were motivated by "words and conduct" which left them "seriously wronged", then they can avoid a murder conviction.

It replaces the defence of provocation with one of "loss of control" caused by a fear of serious violence.

The Ministry of Justice said it would bring about "more just" outcomes.

The changes are based Law Commission recommendations about homicide law made in 2006, proposed by the then-Labour government in 2008, and finally passed into law in 2009.

The "fear of serious violence" defence could apply, for example, when a mother kills a man attempting to rape her daughter, a Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said.

Adultery defence

Men and women who kill after long-term abuse could use one of the partial defences, which replaces a requirement for them to have acted on the spur of the moment.

Under the changes, the partial murder defence of diminished responsibility has been replaced with "a modernised definition", based on the concept of "an abnormality of mental functioning which arose from a recognised medical condition", the ministry said.

Previously, adultery could count as provocation, but under the new loss of control defence, sexual infidelity - "real or imagined" - on the part of the victim does not constitute sufficient grounds for reducing murder to manslaughter, the ministry said.

Anti-abuse charity Women's Aid welcomed the changes.

Chief executive Nicola Harwin said: "The new revised partial defence of provocation should help deliver fairer treatment of domestic violence victims in cases where they have killed a violent and abusive partner, often following years of abuse.

"We also welcome the fact that infidelity will no longer be treated as an acceptable defence for anyone killing a current or former partner."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11469430

Domestic Violence : He Says He Loves Me

http://www.knoxcounty.org/fourthcircuitcourt/domesticviolence_photos.php

Domestic Violence Memorial

http://www.angelfire.com/pa4/dvmemorial/

#October: Is National Domestic Violence Month...Break The Silence And STOP The Violence

http://mounthelix.patch.com/articles/break-the-silence-and-stop-domestic-violence

911 Call : 'My Daddies Beating Up My Mom '