A man in his sixties was arrested yesterday on suspicion of having tried to kill his wife. The victim, who is in her forties, was found unconscious in their home in eastern Reykjavík. She had suffered serious trauma from the assault but paramedics managed to resuscitate her.
The photo is not related to the story. By Páll Stefánsson.
The woman was taken to the Landspítali national hospital where she is being cared for at the ICU. Her condition is still serious and she is being kept on a ventilator, Fréttabladid reports.
The man appears to have attacked his wife in their home and held her by the throat until she lost consciousness.
The police wouldn’t release any information on the events leading up to the assault but confirmed to visir.is that the man had called for assistance himself.
The Reykjavík Metropolitan Police submitted a demand that the man be sentenced to custody until May 30 on the basis of the sentence being in the interest of the investigation, which was agreed to by the judge.
According to the newspaper’s sources, the suspect has a criminal history. He was sentenced to two years in prison for drug smuggling in the mid-1980s, in a case which raised considerable attention at the time.
Click here to read of a recent case of a young man confessing to murdering the mother of his child.
