GETTY FILE PICTURE The man is resisting deportation

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The 25-year-old admitted to suffocating his wife after she came home with a red rose, leading him to believe the young woman had cheated on him. He then tore up the rose, and sent a picture of it to the man he accused of the affair. Prosecutor Adam Rullman said:“We have checked that his statement is consistent with the technical evidence and it is.

GETTY FILE PICTURE Police (not pictured) found his wife on the floor after the horrific attack

“He has explained he believed she was meeting another man and that she wanted a divorce. “After that he went drown to the lake to drown himself.” But as he was about to leave his home to commit suicide, he realised that his daughter was witness to the crime.

GETTY FILE PICTURE The wife came home with a rose, leading her husband to think she was having an affair

During a police interrogation he said: “Then I went back to the neighbours and asked them to call the police so they would arrest me.” The police later found the 22-year-old victim dead on the floor of the asylum accommodation in Mariannelund, Sweden. But despite admitting to the crime and the horrific ordeal of his daughter, the man is fighting a legal battle to remain in Sweden because he is concerned about what may happen to him when he returns to his home country.

GOOGLE The incident took place in southern Sweden