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A YOUNG WOMAN who cut her lover’s heart out and slashed his throat has been sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court, a prosecutor said today.
Fatema Akhter Sonali, 21, acted out of revenge after the man refused to marry her and secretly kept recordings of the couple having sex, prosecutor Quazi Shabbir Ahmed said.
She had also found video footage of him having sex with other women on his laptop, Ahmed said.
“It’s rare for a woman to be sentenced to death. But her case was exceptional,” he told AFP.
She admitted to the court she killed her lover, Emdadul Haq Shipon, for refusing to marry her and for keeping a recording video of their sexual intercourse in his laptop.
The judge delivered Sonali’s sentence yesterday in a packed court in the southwestern city of Khulna.
In her confession, Sonali said she spiked a soft drink with 20 sleeping pills and gave it to Shipon, a 28-year-old part-time lift attendant at a hospital.
When he fell unconscious, she bound his hands and feet before killing him by slitting his throat.
Sonali then cut open his chest and removed his heart.
“She told the court that she was curious to see how big his heart was. She said a man must have a big heart to carry out such audacious crimes,” said Ahmed, using a Bengali idiom.
Sonali committed the murder in March 2014 and can challenge the sentence in a higher court.
If her execution goes ahead she will be the first woman to be hanged in Bangladesh, according to Tipu Sultan, a deputy inspector general of prisons.
There are bunny boilers and there are bunny boilers.
Holy shit!
Don’t females get stoned to death for adultery, so what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Unfortunately she sentenced to death for her actions, whereas if it was the other way around he would be applauded for his actions!
Warthog your comment makes no sense…
Anyone know how to format a PC?
No time, just throw it out the window
Ctrl Z
So isn’t the headline “slut-shaming” the victim? And how is it adultery if he wasn’t married?
Adulterous boyfriend?
I love how when the men do stuff like that it’s an “honour killing” but if a woman does the same she’s a psycho.
The double standards are enlightening!
No, when men kill cheating girlfriends it’s not called an honour killing. It’s just called a murder. Sorry to break this to you since, as you say, you love it.
lesley
You have a valid point, especially regarding honour killings in that part of the world. However this sounds particularly gruesome, If equality was used under their laws (which it is not) she would still be executed.
The idea that you need to murder someone to maintain an imaginary notion about yourself and your family is pretty batshit in itself to be fair.
But yeah, I’d say its the cutting someones heart out that makes you a psycho, not whether you have an inny or an outty.
Well its a savaged 3rd world kip, did you expect some sort of rational here
I think you will find most people of sound mind would be of the opinion that honour killings are murders committed be psychos just as this women was obviously out of her mind!
I think Lesley was totally PWNED
Sonali then cut open his chest and removed his heart. “She told the court that she was curious to see how big his heart was” – if that isn’t proof of being batsh*t crazy I don’t know what is.
The voice in her head was Fergal Sharkey….
Jesus tonight
Hell hath no fury….
I’m surprised at such a comment lik that from you Noah. I would have thought that a good Catholic like yourself would be the first to condemn this execution. As murder is murder even if it is carried out by the state.
Ah she’s probably a lovely girl once you get to know her
Seems like men are second class citizens in Bangladesh.
Was there not a more appropriate target organ than the heart !?!
Hell hath no fury
Fatal Attraction at it’s best.
That was a very heartless thing to do
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