Woman in China beaten by husband for refusing sex kills him by crushing neck, suffocation, gets 3 and a half years’ jail
- Sour relationship, husband demands sex, attacks wife, she fights back
- Autopsy shows pressure to neck, mouth, nose, led to man’s death by suffocation
A woman in China has been jailed for three and a half years for accidentally killing her husband in an act of self-defence after he attacked her because she would not have sex with him.
Zhang Ying, not her real name, from Shandong province in eastern China, was convicted of negligent homicide by a local court, Toutiao News reported.
The incident happened on March 4, 2022, when her husband, Zhang Bin, demanded intercourse. Although the couple had been married for 24 years, their relationship had not been good for some time, so Zhang Ying refused.
The man became enraged, hit his wife repeatedly, and pulled her by the hair. To protect herself, she fought back. During the violence, they fell onto the bed.
Zhang Ying said she used her elbow to hit him in the neck and head. Details of the time of death were not clear but Zhang Bin’s sister found him dead the next morning.