Wife confesses to killing husband after two months

A Saudi woman confessed to have murdered her husband more than two months after he died in a fire at his house in the Gulf Kingdom.

The man, in his 50s, had succeeded in breaking his bedroom door and escaping the blaze but he returned to the room to die after forgetting his car key.

Police had decided that the fire was an accident according to family statements before they reopened the case following a report by the civil defence that the bedroom’s door was locked from outside, according to Sabq newspaper.

During interrogation nearly two and half months after the man’s head, his 48-year-old wife confessed to have set the fire and locked the door to murder her husband following a heated argument at their house in the western town of Taif.

“She told investigators that she set the bedroom on fire by burning furniture items near the door…she said that her husband finally succeeded in breaking the door and leaving the room but he returned to get his car key…she said that he died after the room’s roof fell on him,” the Arabic language daily said.

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