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New Delhi: A Keralite nurse who has been awarded death sentence in Yemen for chopping her lover to pieces has said that she committed the crime as she was being used as a sex slave by the man. Nimisha Priya, a native of Palakkad district in Kerala has written to the state and the central governments seeking their intervention in the matter for her release from the prison. According to a report in Manorama, Priya had murdered and chopped her partner Talal Abdul Mahdi in a medical clinic in Al Deydh, Yemen. She had then dumped his chopped body parts in a water tank behind their house.

Citing the letter, the report has said that she was running the clinic with Talal since 2014. She has said that he had duped her for a huge amount of money. The duo had also created a fake marriage certificate to show their neighbours that the two were married. He allegedly subjected her to extreme torture and sexual attacks- acts, which became a reason for her to commit the crime.

According to the report, Nimisha had married a person from Kerala and left for Yemen. The two also have a child. In 2017, she sent back the husband and the child to Kerala and told him that she would be back to India in six months. But her husband lost contact with her after two months of having returned. About six months ago, Yemen police authorities issued a lookout notice against Priya in connection with Mahdi’s murder.