A man who slit his wife's throat after searching online for ways to get off a murder charge by pleading insanity has been jailed for life.
Ali Alkilinc, from Elazig in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, had used Google to search for his best chance of getting away with killing his estranged partner, a court was told.
In his chilling search history he had looked up "punishment for killing a cheating wife" and "which diseases do not have a criminal liability", judges at 1st High Criminal Court of Elazig were told.
Alkilinc also searched "what is schizophrenia" before killing his 34-year-old wife Aslihan, who was divorcing him, said prosecutors.
Following the searches, Alkilinc went to his mother-in-law's home and hammered on the door, pretending to be an emergency services worker.
When his wife's mother, "Sule B," opened the door, he stabbed her and ran to his ex, slashing her throat in the gruesome attack on June 9, 2020.
Following his arrest, Alkilinc tried to plead he was too mentally unstable to face trial.
But after police unearthed his Google search history, he was declared fit to appear in court.
Alkilinc was found guilty of aggravated murder and was sentenced to life in prison, and was also ordered to serve a 12-year sentence for the attempted murder of Sule B.
Femicide has become a growing problem in Turkey, particularly after the country officially quit the Istanbul Convention in July 2021.
According to data from the 'Monument Counter', which is "a digital memorial for women killed by violence" and is updated daily, 393 women were killed by men in 2022, while 82 femicides have taken place in Turkey so far this year.
