‘Angry and jealous’ asylum seeker tried to cut wife’s head off

‘Angry and jealous’ asylum seeker tried to cut wife’s head off

Wahib Albaradan said the murder of Salam Alshara ‘would have been an honour crime’ in Syria, court hears

Syrian man who tried to cut wife’s head off in frenzied attack jailed for life

Wahib Albaradan, 37, used two knives and a razor in a ‘prolonged, persistent and frenzied’ attack on Salam Alshara, 27, at their home in Dewsbury. A Syrian asylum seeker who tried to cut his wife’s head off and left her to bleed to death on their children’s bedroom floor has been jailed for at least 19 years and six months. Wahib Albaradan, 37, used two knives and a razor in a “prolonged, persistent and frenzied” attack on Salam Alshara, 27, at …