Life imprisonment for sword murder of wife

She wanted a divorce – then he went on the attack • Does not suffer from a mental disorder

On August 8, a child in Arvika called 112. The child told the emergency services that “mother is dying” and several patrols were ordered to the scene.

Outside the home, the police met a slurring man and in the kitchen a woman who was bleeding profusely from the side of her stomach. Life-saving measures were initiated, but the woman died from her injuries.

“On my way out, I see a large sword lying in the room between the living room and the exit of the house. The sword is bloody,” the police write in their report.

The woman’s husband, who is called Rivallo Pelupessy and is 37 years old, had cut the sword through her body and seriously damaged the aorta and kidney. He is described by the police as heavily drunk and confused when they arrest him.

“He does not answer any questions but gives completely irrelevant answers. Sometimes he laughs and sometimes he just stares at me. He also asks questions sometimes like ‘where is my wife?’, ‘how is my wife??’. He often talks about smoking, it is difficult to decipher the exact meaning as he slurs, has a strong accent and is bad at Swedish,” the police write.

The children in shock

The couple’s two shocked children were taken to the neighboring house.

“The children sit and cry, shake and are shocked. They start talking and it is initially difficult to understand what they are saying through the crying, which is at that moment hysterical in rounds,” writes the police.

“Both tell of father having stuck a sword in mother’s stomach. They said that the father was drunk and that the mother had told the father that she did not want to be with him anymore”.

In November, the Värmland district court ruled that Rivallo Pelupessy is guilty of murdering his wife.

Pelupessy, who claims he did not intend to kill the woman, has since undergone a forensic psychiatric examination. Now it is clear that he does not suffer from any serious mental disorder and on Thursday he will be sentenced to life imprisonment and deportation, writes Aftonbladet.

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