Lawyers for an elderly Pakistani man are clamoring for a manslaughter charge after police say he beat his wife to death for failure to satisfy his goat meat craving.
According to prosecutors, Noor Hussein, 75, pummeled his 66-year-old wife to a “bloody mess” when she brought lentils to the dinner table.
Reports NY Post:
Noor Hussein, 75, was so outraged over the prospect of eating the vegetarian fare that he pummeled his wife, Nazar Hussein, 66, inside their Brooklyn apartment until she was a “bloody mess,” prosecutors said in opening statements of his murder trial Wednesday.
“Defendant asked [his wife] to cook goat and [his wife] said she made something else,” court papers said.
“The conversation got louder and [his wife] disrespected defendant by cursing at defendant and saying motherf–ker and that the defendant took a wooden stick and hit her with it on her arm and mouth.”
Defense attorney Julie Clark admitted Hussein beat his wife — but argued that he is guilty of only manslaughter because he didn’t intend to kill her. She said that in his home country, beating your wife is customary.
“He comes from a culture where he thinks this is appropriate conduct, where he can hit his wife,” Clark said in her opening statements at the Brooklyn Supreme Court bench trial. “He culturally believed he had the right to hit his wife and discipline his wife.”
Assistant District Attorney Sabeeha Madni is letting that struggle excuse fly and she’s out for a murder charge as the trial continues later today, May 22.
H/T: Gothamist
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