Chinese nurse admits killing ‘cheating’ fiancé with sleeping powder, insulin injection after wedding postponed
She suspected her boyfriend had been unfaithful after she checked his phone
A 29-year-old nurse has appeared in court in Shanghai charged with murdering her boyfriend after she suspected he was cheating on her following the postponement of their wedding, a newspaper report said.
The nurse, whose real name was not given, met her boyfriend at the Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital in 2011 where they both worked, the report said.
They dated for three years and planned to get married in January last year, but due to minor arguments about the wedding her boyfriend’s parents suggested they postpone the big day.
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Prosecutors said the nurse suspected her boyfriend was unfaithful after she scrolled through his phone on April 1 last year and found he had been contacting other women.
She then mixed sleeping powder in his drinking water and injected insulin into his stomach that evening.
She found him dead the next morning.
The nurse called her aunt, admitting the killing, the report said.