Man Cleared of Strangling Wife during Nightmare
This is no joke: A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found not guilty in her death (1).
Some of my readers may recall my 2006 article The Triple Talaq (divorce) and Arabic Dyslexia when I reported that village elders ordered a Muslim man in eastern India to leave his wife after he accidentally divorced her in his sleep.
I now expect Muslims to use the "nightmare defense" when they engage in Honor Killing under the influence of Islam: "But Officer, my wife refused to wear the veil - what a nightmare!"
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(1):
CNEWS, Man cleared of wife's death during nightmare
Prosecutors had originally asked Brian Thomas be found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2008 death of his wife, Christine, and be sent to a psychiatric hospital.
On Friday chief prosecutor Iwan Jenkins said “it is now clear that the psychiatrists feel that that would serve no useful purpose and the risk of reoccurrence is very, very small.”
The judge ordered the jury return a verdict of not guilty. Thomas, of south Wales, had accepted he killed his wife of 40 years.
The jury was told that Thomas, 59, had a sleep disorder and was in a state of automatism — where his mind had no control over his body — when he strangled Christine.
