{"id":3039,"date":"2008-02-07T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/02\/07\/abused-wife-jailed-for-killing-husband\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T17:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:31:24","slug":"abused-wife-jailed-for-killing-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/07\/abused-wife-jailed-for-killing-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Abused wife jailed for killing husband"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A WOMAN who stabbed her husband to death has been sentenced to four years in jail.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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33-year-old Rina Begum accused her husband, Anhar Miah, of making her life hell saying she feared for her life. <\/div>\n

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The Old Bailey heard Begum, a mother-of-five, attacked her husband last April with a kitchen knife, rolling pin and hammer leaving with more than 100 injuries, including 70 slash wounds. <\/div>\n

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She was sentenced to four years by the jury on the grounds of manslaughter by reason of provocation but will serve only 15 months. <\/div>\n

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The Old Bailey was told 37-year-old Anhar Miah husband kept Begum and her children in conditions akin to “slum squalor”. <\/div>\n

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When police visited the couple\u2019s flat they found it littered with dead mice and a repulsive stench.<\/div>\n

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Michael Worsley QC, prosecuting, told jurors after the \u201cfrenzied, sustained, ferocious assault” Begum denied knowing anything about her husbands murder. <\/div>\n

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But she later said she was suffering from mental and physical abuse and feared for her life. <\/div>\n

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Judge Richard Hone told her that under new sentencing guidelines he would pass the shortest jail term that “matched the seriousness of the offence”. <\/div>\n

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He said: “I accept that over a number of years the relationship with your husband had been deeply unhappy and indeed from time to time frightening.<\/div>\n

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“I am wholly satisfied that you did feel degraded and lost self-esteem.” <\/div>\n

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The judge added: “It exemplified the degree of loss of control and the build-up of the provocation which led to this explosive violence.” <\/div>\n

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“But you must appreciate the harm and damage you have done to your five children and also to the family of Anhar.”<\/div>\n

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A WOMAN who stabbed her husband to death has been sentenced to four years in jail. 33-year-old Rina Begum accused her husband, Anhar Miah, of making her life hell saying she feared for her life. The Old Bailey heard Begum, a mother-of-five, attacked her husband last April with a kitchen knife, rolling pin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}