KUWAIT CITY, Feb 9: The Criminal Court Tuesday sentenced a Kuwaiti woman, identified only as Tahani, to life imprisonment for the premeditated murder of her husband in Khaitan.
Case papers indicate based on the confession made by the accused, on the day that the husband died she had decided to kill him because he had allegedly married another woman and for this purpose she had bought four kitchen knives the day before she killed him.
She also confessed in court she had tried in vain to convince her husband to forget about the new wife and return to her. She pointed out the man refused to divorce his new wife and she decided to murder him. When the man went to bed that night and fell asleep she stabbed him in the chest several times until she was sure he was dead.
However when she was told the man was dead she got the shock and lost her composure and said she loved him a lot.
The session was presided over by Judge Abdurrahman Al-Darmi.

Duo held in drug trafficking :Personnel from the Drugs and Narcotics Control Department have arrested two youths — a Kuwaiti and a citizen of an unidentified GCC state — both employees of the Ministry of Information for trafficking in drugs, reports Al-Dar daily.
The daily quoting security sources said police acting on information put the Kuwaiti under surveillance and caught him red-handed while selling hashish to a police agent for KD 50.
During interrogation at a police station, the youth admitted to trafficking in drugs and told police he got the drugs from the GCC youth.
Armed with a search and arrest warrant police then raided the home of the latter and seized from him 500 grams of hashish.
The two suspects have been referred to the authorities.