A bus driver who murdered his wife claims he did so because she told him to leave their house after he tested positive for COVID-19.
Hussein Egal, 66, reportedly used various household items, including a meat cleaver, table leg, and ladder to attack his 57-year-old wife Maryan Ismail.
He admitted to the killing that happened during England’s COVID-19 lockdown in April of last year. However, he denies it was murder.
Allison Hunter, prosecutor on the case, described the scene of the victim’s home. It was a “brutal, frenzied, sustained attack involving the use of a hammer, a knife or knives, pots and pans, a table leg and a ladder plunged repeatedly into her back, chest, legs and head,” she told jurors.
An medical examiner discovered 68 wounds on her body, including multiple stab wounds to her face and head.
Egal defends the killing by claiming that the victim told him to “get out and die on the street” because he had COVID-19.
He says he then told his wife, “I will kill you first.”
When police arrived at the scene, Egal told them they should stay away from him because he had coronavirus. He then told police that his wife attacked him with a table leg and he had to defend himself.
But Hunter told jurors that Egal had no symptoms of COVID-19 and he did not have a single defense wound.
Egal washed a meat cleaver used in the attack, disposed of his wife’s mobile phone and visited the bank to transfer money to his daughter in Somalia, the court was told.
Hunter says it was Egal’s intention to “cause her the most serious harm imaginable.”
“His motive is something only he knows,” she added.
Need i say more? Typical behavior of heathen