English pensioner can hang in Malaysia for murder of husband

A resident of the UK, who killed her violent husband, is awaiting trial in Malaysia. It is likely that this woman will soon be hanged.

English Samantha Jones may soon get death sentence by hanging for the murder of her husband. The woman claims that he went on this crime in self-defense because her husband beat her. She killed him with the use of a kitchen knife in the house on the idyllically beautiful resort in Malaysia near the coast. Here 51-year-old woman hoped to live many years and to age. Now, however, Samantha has appeared before the public with bare feet and in orange prison garb, when the court formally she was charged in the murder of 63-year-old husband John.

The crime occurred in the period from 1 to 3 nights October 18 at the house of the couple Jones worth 200,000 pounds in the peaceful village of luxury on a tropical island. Murder by the laws of Malaysia is punishable by death by hanging, but if the women lawyers to convince the court that she went to the crime in self-defense, it can save lives and sentenced to long prison terms. The Prosecutor’s office accuses Samantha Jones in the first-degree murder, i.e. premeditated crime, she hit her husband with a knife in the chest, and the blade pierced the man’s liver.

While it took only a pre-trial hearing at which the woman was charged. The translator asked if she understood, but Samantha practically all the time did not say a word. It, and counsel was not filed petition to change the measure of restraint on bail, so the judge left the woman behind bars until November 29. The last 12 days Samantha was in a police prison. Investigators she told me that she was defending herself after her husband started beating her at the Villa where they lived for 11 years. Woman gets moral support from her sister, who flew in from the UK immediately after his arrest. (READ MORE)