British woman faces the death penalty
after ‘stabbing her husband to death during an argument’
A British man has been stabbed to death on the Malaysian holiday island of Langkawi after rowing with his wife who has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
John William Jones, 62, was found on the floor of his house with a stab wound to the chest at 2.30am this morning, local police chief Mohamad Iqbal Ibrahim told AFP.
His wife Samantha, 62, has been detained and is suspected of having murdered him following a row, he said.
The pair had lived on Langkawi, a jungleclad, tropical island in northwest Malaysia that attracts millions of tourists annually to its palmfringed beaches, for the past 11 years.
His wife was arrested in the early hours of the morning the Star Online reports, and she has been remanded in custody.
‘The couple were believed to have engaged in an argument. The wife then took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed her husband in the chest,’ Mohamad Iqbal said.
A 12 inch knife was found on the floor of the couple’s bedroom covered in blood stains, he said.
The couple had been granted residency on Malaysia’s ‘My Second Home’ program which allows people to stay beyond normal visa periods. Local media reported the victim’s body was discovered early Thursday after neighbours alerted police.
Under current laws, the wife will be sentenced to death by hanging if she is found guilty of murdering her husband.