British tourist, 28, ‘kills his 26-year-old wife by stabbing her 41 times with a screwdriver in a Turkish hotel room – before husband is found covered in blood’
- Investigators found the victim’s partner, who immediately confessed to the murder
A British tourist has been arrested after allegedly stabbing his wife to death with a screwdriver following an argument in their Turkish hotel room.
The 26-year-old woman was found dead in a hotel in Istanbul’s Fatih Mevlanakapı district around 12:30 local time on Tuesday.
Hotel staff reported hearing “noises” coming from a room and found the victim “lying in a pool of blood.” Medical teams later arrived and pronounced her dead.
The woman was discovered with cuts to her throat and all over her body, and investigators concluded she had been killed with a screwdriver.
Turkish police started an investigation and promptly found her husband wearing a bloody white T-shirt.
The suspect confessed to the murder and said he had thrown the screwdriver into the toilet of the hotel room.
View of the historic city center of Istanbul, Turkey with Galata Bridge and mosques
The historic gates of Istanbul in the Mevlanakapi district
Upon his arrest, the suspect claimed the victim had given him drugs on the day of the attack, Turkish said media.
The couple argued, he said, before he stabbed his partner repeatedly with the screwdriver, killing her.
He admitted to fleeing the scene after hiding the evidence.
An investigation into the incident is ongoing.
The couple are said to have arrived in Turkey on November 12 after flying to Sabiha Gökçen Airport.
They settled into their hotel on November 14, where the victim was later found dead.
In August last year, a British woman was found not guilty after being accused of throwing her boyfriend to his death from a hotel balcony in Turkey from a height of 30 metres.
Kayley Myers, from Newcastle, spent months behind bars in the Mediterranean after her partner, Reece Pegram, was found dead at their resort last year.
Prosecutors alleged the 32-year-old threw her boyfriend off a balcony, sparking a 16-month nightmare that left her facing the prospect of being locked up for life.
But after a judge ruled there was ‘no definitive and convincing evidence’ to convict her, she will finally be allowed to return to Britain, ending a chapter of her ‘living nightmare’, she told The Sun.