Russian woman allegedly stabbed her husband with a knife and fed bits of his flesh to their pet dog - Representational image
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A 46-year-old Russian woman has been arrested in Majorca for
allegedly stabbing her husband to death and feeding bits of his flesh
to her pet dog.
Svetlana Batukova and Hans Henkels, 66, had married in
January after having lived together for about a couple of years,
according to Daily Mail's MailOnline. But the couple apparently had a
rough relationship as police were frequently called to their home over
domestic rows.
According to local reports, Batukova, who hails from
Russia's third largest city Novosibirsk, had recently agreed to pay
€50,000 (£40,147.14, $56,845.37) to a man she met in a bar for her
husband's murder.
Henkels's postmortem report showed he had bled to death. He
had been stabbed many times by a kitchen knife at their home in the east
coast resort of Cala Millor in the Spanish Island. Batukova, who has
confessed to being a cocaine addict, allegedly cut flesh off her dead
husband's arms and fed it to their pet Staffordshire bull terrier.
Several hours later she called the police, who found her next to the
corpse.
The Russian woman is said to have been under the influence
of liquor and drugs when arrested. She was sent to a hospital
psychiatric unit following a suspected psychotic attack. She is now
facing trial, which will reportedly take place behind closed doors in a
court in Manacor, a municipality on the island of Majorca.
Henkels was reportedly unable to speak following a recent
surgery on his windpipe. According to investigators involved in the
case, absence of signs of a struggle before death signals that the
66-year-old was drugged before the murder, the online news publication reported.
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