A Chinese woman killed her husband then boiled his remains to keep her crime a secret. Anhui News, a government-backed news agency in China, said she had discovered that her husband was abusing her daughter and had acted out of revenge.

The woman allegedly drugged her second husband and tortured him for three days. The husband was not given any food and received beatings from his wife which eventually led to his death. For fear of being discovered, she boiled her husband's corpse using a pressure cooker after cutting up his body in pieces with a saw.

The news report did not give any details about what the Chinese woman did to the cooked remains of her husband.

Apparently, the heavy burden of what she had done and the psychological trauma has led her to turn herself over the police. A police officer in China's Lu'an City province has confirmed the case but declined to divulge more details outside of what's already known.

Woman kills husband with hammer

Another wife was driven to murder her husband due to abuse. In India, the husband used to return to his home in Ghaziabad drunk every night was killed by his wife because of his constant abuse. The woman's 22-year-old daughter found her lying near the body of the girl's father, Shri Ram Sharma, who was 54 years old.

The family told Indian police that Mr Sharma would come home every night and beat his wife for no apparent reason. Shanta, 48, could no longer take her husband's abusive behaviour. She used a hammer to hit her husband on the head and killed him on the spot. She has since been arrested for murder.

Domestic violence and abuse have led women to commit crimes in the heat of the moment, while some have said they murdered their partners as an act of self-defence. Not all countries have legislation in place to protect women and children from abuse. Saudi Arabia has recently passed a legal ban on domestic violence and other forms of abuse against women to join the list of countries with laws protecting women's rights.

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