By Rana Husseini
AMMAN — Ramtha police have detained a 19-year-old man who reportedly stabbed and killed his married sister on Monday evening in the latest so-called honour crime in the Kingdom, official sources said.
The 24-year-old victim, who was not identified by officials, received multiple stab wounds on different parts of her body, allegedly inflicted by her brother, one official source told The Jordan Times on condition of anonymity.
The suspect then headed to a nearby police station and turned himself in, claiming to have killed his sister to cleanse his family’s honour after finding a man in her house, the source added.
“Initial investigations indicated that the brother found a man in his sibling’s home while her husband was out. He headed to a nearby market, bought several knives and returned to his sister’s house, where he stabbed her to death,” the source said.
The man, who was at the victim’s house, was unharmed, the official source added.
The victim’s body will be referred to the Irbid National Institute of Forensic Medicine for an autopsy on Tuesday, the source said.
“The autopsy and further interrogation of the suspect will help us learn more about the crime,” the source explained.
The woman became the sixth person reportedly murdered in the Kingdom for reasons of so-called honour since the beginning of the year, according to official figures.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
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Will those honorless crimes ever stop?
i always wondered what kind of parents raise this type of men? i don’t wanna blame people that i even don’t know but we’re talking about brothers killing their sisters here! its not the first time and sadly it doesn’t seem to be the last time we hear of such crimes, obviously, there is something about our family relationships, the ties, how we raise our kids and what kind of values do we inherent in them. no matter how biased and sexist one can be i’m still shocked. its one thing to allow males total freedom while suppressing females and another to raise a generation of men who are capable of taking their own sisters’ souls in minutes.
It is really sad to see these things happening, if that same brother was in “another married womans place” he would be unharmed. Instead he might show off in front of his friends.