Last week we posted about a murder in the German city of Kiel in which a Turkish husband apparently butchered his wife in halal fashion.

Below is a longer report with more details on the incident. Many thanks to Egri Nök for translating this article from SHZ.de:

Kiel: Mother of Three stabbed to Death in Front of Kindergarten; Perpetrator in Pre-Trial Detention March 15, 2017 The victim bled to death on the open street. Her 40-year-old husband was arrested near the crime scene. Once again a man has killed his wife on the open street. The bloody deed is shocking and deeply saddening. The five-year-old son apparently had to watch as his mother’s throat was cut. The crime scene in the district of Kiel Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf is cordoned off with barrier tape. Investigators in white overalls are securing traces. Then the corpse is being taken to forensics. Dilek V. (34), mother of three, bled to death on the sidewalk. She was already dead when police and rescuers arrived, alerted by an eyewitness. On Thursday forensics began the postmortem of the corpse. Chief Prosecutor Axel Bieler says the woman was killed with a kitchen knife. This was the result of the preliminary autopsy. The final result is expected within the next few days, Bieler announces. The 40-year-old suspect was brought before the investigative judge. The committing magistrate issued a warrant for manslaughter, following the proposal of the State Prosecutor Kiel. “The investigations are still ongoing”, Bieler explains. The man has not yet made a statement on the allegations. [photo caption: a group of possible relatives gather at the crime scene; police is looking after them. Photo: rtn ] Dilek V. had been walking her youngest son to the kindergarten “Am Wasserturm” as usual; she lived only five minutes away. At that point, her husband Aytekin A. (40) trapped her. “The investigators for the Kiel Homicide Division assume a marital quarrel between the spouses, who lived separately,” the police spokesman Finn-Ole Henning says. According to information obtained by shz.de, this was about child custody. Aytekin A. was arrested at a supermarket not far from the crime scene. The victim married her husband when she was 17 years old, and had three children by him, two sons (5 and 15) and a daughter (10). [photo caption: firefighters clean the crime scene after the knife attack in the district of Kiel Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf. Photo: dpa ]