Remand extended for Australian suspected of stabbing wife
The Tel Aviv Magistrate’s court extended the remand on Tuesday of an Australian man suspected of stabbing his wife to death in a Tel Aviv hotel on Monday.
The suspect, John Paul Sebastian, a 45-year-old Australian national, was remanded for 7 days.
Judge Muki Landman also ordered that Sebastian undergo a psychiatric evaluation after initial reports indicated he is mentally ill.
Sebastian and his wife had been staying in the Dan Panorama Hotel for several days when the stabbing occurred at around 4:00 p.m. on Monday.air yeezy 2011 The hotel’s security officer was the first to arrive on the scene after other hotel guests called to complain of shouts coming from the hotel room. Police and Magen David Adom paramedics were dispatched to the hotel but declared the woman dead at the scene.
In Monday’s hearing, which was attended by a representative from the Australian Consulate, police representative Arik Miodovsky told the court that Sebastian had been found in the hotel room, sitting on the bed next to a knife, his clothes covered in blood. Sebastian also had deep cuts on his arm.
According to Miodovsky, during police questioning on Tuesday, Sebastian initially claimed he had acted in self-defense but later changed his story when confronted with evidence against him. He told investigators where he had obtained the knife, and explained that he had stabbed the victim because she had ruled over him for years using a power of attorney that she refused to cancel.
A military source said that Yemen’s defense minister, Mohammed Nasser Ahmed, survived on Tuesday an assassination attempt from a roadside bomb, which targeted his motorcade on the main road linking Aden province and Abyan. ?
The source said that two soldiers were killed and two others wounded following the explosion.
Military sources told Yemen Post that al-Qaeda planted 150 explosive device packages in areas under its control in Abyan.
The accident happened when the minister paid a visit to the units 201 and 119 brigades in the province.
Confirmed sources said that over the last three days ten soldiers have been killed in clashes between troops and al-Qaeda in the village of Dofas, south of Zanzibar.
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