Overweight man squashes wife to death

[TreasonousBastard]

Thursday, February 7, 2008


An overweight man was jailed for five years after he killed his wife by sitting on her during a domestic dispute.

The 20-stone (128kg) man 'sat on his wife's chest for at least two minutes and broke her ribs in 18 places', said Jan-Michael Seidel, a spokesman for the court in the northern town of Hildesheim.

'It was quite deliberate.'

The woman, who was half her husband's weight, died from her injuries less than a month later.

The 50-year-old man, from Germany, was charged with grievous bodily harm leading to death.

He told the court he had accidentally fallen on his wife after trying to drag her into another room during the fight. However, forensic evidence showed that this was untrue.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=97736&in_page_id=2

[marzipanni]

1. That is rather disturbing, but I got a laugh from this one-

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=65993&in_page_id=2

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Massachussetts, eh? Anybody seen Matcom's...

gas mask?

Did DS1 make off with it?