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Orihuela Costa expat arrested for murdering her husband
The Valencian Community court has remanded the Norwegian woman in custody
The Orihuela Costa community is reeling after a Norwegian woman was arrested over the weekend for allegedly stabbing her husband to death in front of the couple’s three young children.
The accused was remanded in custody on Friday August 2, without bail, after phoning the police herself to report the incident.
According to official sources, the woman called the 112 emergency line in the early hours of Friday. She told the responder that she had stabbed her husband in self-defence at least three times after he repeatedly attacked and chased her both inside and outside their home. The family lives in a rural property close to the border with Torrevieja, with no neighbouring houses.
During a three-hour statement before a judge, the woman, who is now being investigated for a crime of homicide, revealed that her three children, aged 10, 8 and 6, witnessed the entire attack.
The judge's decision to remand the woman without bail has been harshly criticised by her lawyer, who said at the end of his client's statement that she “is a victim of gender violence”, given that “she has suffered physical and psychological abuse”, as well as “threats towards her and her children and isolation from her entire family”.
According to the alleged murderer’s legal representatives, it is clear from the injuries that she sustained on the night in question that she tried desperately to defend herself – she sustained multiple cuts and bruises and her arm had to be operated on.
Her lawyer argued that she “is a mentally exhausted woman, with three small children, and it was either her life or the life of this man.”
This account of long-running abuse is backed up by the woman’s brother, who called his deceased brother-in-law a “psychopath” who repeatedly threatened to kill his wife and children before “imprisoning” them in an isolated home on the Orihuela Costa.
The three children are unharmed and currently being cared for by the state. Their mother’s lawyer has asked that the oldest be allowed to submit a statement via video link on Monday August 5, in the hopes that he may be able to shed some light on the terrible events.
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