Wife Beats Drunken Husband with Mortar, Kills Him with Brick Three Days Later

A wife who killed her husband by hitting him with a brick because he was being drunk and disorderly has been arrested by the police.

[Asia Economy Reporter Jumi Lee] A wife who was about to be investigated by the police after hitting her drunken husband with a mortar was arrested on suspicion of killing her husband by hitting him three days later.

The Pyeongtaek Police Station in Gyeonggi announced on the 16th that they had applied for an arrest warrant for wife A (62) on suspicion of killing her husband.

A is suspected of repeatedly striking her husband B (61) on the head with a brick from the flower bed at their home in Wolgok-dong, Pyeongtaek City, around 1:10 p.m. the previous day (15th), causing his death.

It was investigated that A, who had been drinking with her husband in the morning and returned home, committed the crime after her husband started swearing and acting drunkenly. When her husband lost consciousness due to the assault, A reportedly called the police herself and reported, "I killed my husband."

Meanwhile, A was also under non-custodial investigation on suspicion of special assault for hitting her husband's head with a wooden mortar three days before the incident.

On the afternoon of the 12th, around 4:50 p.m., A reportedly hit her husband’s head once with a 30cm wooden mortar out of anger because he had drunk a lot.

However, the police did not arrest A on the spot as she reported the incident herself, the husband did not want to pursue the case, and the weapon was collected, concluding there was no risk of evidence tampering or flight.

Instead, since husband B said he would stay at an acquaintance’s house, emergency measures were taken to separate the couple instead of urgent temporary measures.

A police official stated, "The incident that occurred on the 12th was scheduled for investigation tomorrow (17th)," adding, "The husband returned home again, drank with his wife trying to get along, and then the incident happened."

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