KILLER WIFE JAILED FOR FOUR YEARS

The Express, UK
May 6, 2005

A MOTHER-of-three who killed her brutal husband after 13 years of
violence and sexual abuse began a four-year jail sentence yesterday.

Devout Christian Lana Yadgari, 32, admitted manslaughter after stabbing
her Muslim husband Sameh, 35, 19 times and then dousing his body with
petrol and setting it on fire.

Pressure group Justice For Women branded the sentence unduly harsh.

Weeks before the killing last year Yadgari was beaten so badly by
her husband she spent nine days in hospital.

Jailing her at Manchester Crown Court, Mr Justice Jeremy Cooke said:
“You were subjected to physical and sexual violence, coupled with
constant humiliation and abuse. The suffering did impair your
judgment.”

Yadgari and her husband, who was born in Afghanistan, married in 1990
after meeting at college in her native Armenia. The beatings began
when she gave birth to a girl instead of a son and would not convert
to Islam.

The couple came to England in 2002.

Yadgari, of Blackley, Manchester, killed her husband after she had
moved out with the children. He called round, threatened to rape her
and then drove her to a lonely spot. She thought he wanted to kill
her and stabbed him with a knife she found in the car.