Man detained in wife strangulation death in Zarqa

AMMAN — The Criminal Court prosecutor on Tuesday charged a man with manslaughter in connection with the murder of his wife in Zarqa Governorate a day earlier, official sources said.

The 37-year-old woman was rushed to a private hospital by her son who found her lying unconscious in the bathroom, a senior judicial source said.

The mother of four was declared dead on arrival, the judicial source told The Jordan Times.

The victim was transferred to Zarqa National Institute of Forensic Medicine (ZNIFM) because “attending doctors at the private hospital were unable to determine the cause of death”, a senior medical source said.

A team of forensic experts at the ZNIFM comprised of Mahmoud Zreiqat, Adnan Abas and Ibrahim Obeidat performed an autopsy on the victim and concluded that she died of strangulation, the medical source told The Jordan Times.

“The forensic experts detected strangulation marks on the victim caused by a manual grip and concluded that it was a homicide,” according to the medical source.

The pathologists immediately alerted the authorities who opened a probe into the incident, the judicial source said.

“Investigators immediately summoned the husband since he told officials that his wife was suffering from medical problems,” the judicial source added.

Upon questioning him, the judicial source maintained, “he confessed to murdering his wife following an argument”.

Criminal Court Prosecutor Ishaq Abu Awad is currently questioning the suspect to “determine what the real motive behind the murder was”.

 The suspect was ordered detained for 15 days at a correctional and rehabilitation centre pending further investigations.