A man who decapitated his wife and paraded through the streets carrying her severed head has been handed aN eight-year prison sentence in Iran.
He escaped a more severe punishment after her parents reportedly chose not to invoke Iran's Islamic law of retribution.
Mona Heydari, a mother of one, was just 17 when she was dragged from a vehicle outside her family home and murdered in February 2022, according to court proceedings.
Her husband Sajjad Heydari, along with his brother Heydar, carried out the savage killing in Ahvaz, the capital of the south-western Khuzestan Province.
A judiciary spokesman confirmed the lenient sentence was imposed because Mona's parents had "pardoned" him for the killing rather than demanding retribution.
Mona, who had been married off at just 12, had initially fled her abusive husband and escaped to Turkey with another man, the court heard.
Heydari had reportedly refused Mona's requests for a divorce.
Her father, identified as Javid in local reports, eventually tracked her down and persuaded her to return to Iran.
According to theBBC, her father allegedly used Interpol to FIND his daughter and brought her back to her violent husband, where her spouse — who is also her cousin — killed her, claiming she had brought dishonour upon him.
Disturbing video footage, which The Express has chosen not to publish, surfaced showing the murderous husband clutching his wife's severed head in one hand and a large knife in the other following her killing.
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
