A husband who pushed his pregnant wife over the edge of a cliff to her death has finally been convicted for the horrific act.
An evil husband who pushed his pregnant wife off a cliff after luring her to the edge for a selfie has been jailed for 30 years.
Hakan Aysal, 40, was found guilty of pushing his seven-month-pregnant wife Semra Aysal, 32, off a cliff in southern Turkey in June 2018.
Police have accused Aysal of pushing his wife off a cliff in the country’s popular Butterfly Valley in the southeastern district of Mulga.
Cops grew suspicious of Aysal after photos of the clifftop couple were shared in news reports, prompting a witness to present video evidence of the 40-year-old Turk acting strangely.
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Recep Sahin, who filmed Semra’s final moments live, spoke at a previous hearing and told the court: “I stopped there to see the view of Kabak Bay with my family.
“My daughter was filming the view with my phone and the Aysal couple went downhill at that time.
“We even joked, ‘either this man will reject the woman, or the woman will reject the man.’ There was no interaction between them. »
Another witness said Aysal seemed unusually calm after the incident.
He said: ‘I was driving there when I saw someone waving at me and I stopped.
“Hakan came and said his wife fell off the cliff. We immediately got out of the car and started looking for her, but we couldn’t see where she would have landed from where we were.
He added: “We tried to get closer to the edge to see better. Hakan did not accompany us there.
“We stayed there until the arrival of the gendarmerie. Hakan was very carefree and calm. He wasn’t acting like a man whose wife just fell off a cliff.
Single beneficiary
Aysal was accused of planning to murder his wife and had taken out life insurance in her name worth £21,700, which he quickly claimed after her death, according to court documents.
He was the sole beneficiary of his wife’s insurance.
It was dismissed when police announced an investigation into Semra’s death.
The victim’s older brother, Naim Yolcu, said in an earlier hearing: “When we went to the Institute of Forensic Medicine to collect the body, Hakan was sitting in the car. My family and I were destroyed, but Hakan didn’t even look sad.
He added: “My sister has always been against loans. However, after her death, we learned that she had loans taken out by Hakan in my sister’s name. “
He told the court that Aysal was afraid of heights and said it made no sense for him to take Semra to a cliff.
Aysal says he has been doing extreme sports like mountaineering since 2014.
His social media account showed countless photos of his seemingly high-flying lifestyle in which he traveled the country and stayed in top hotels abroad.
Asked about a clause in his wife’s insurance that made him the sole beneficiary of any death benefit, he said: “I haven’t looked at the policy closely. The banker has arranged the papers. I just took it to my wife to have it signed. I didn’t know there was such an article.
He denied being responsible for Semra’s death, telling the court at the time: “After taking a picture, my wife put the phone in her bag. Later she asked me to give her the phone.
“I stood up and heard my wife screaming behind me as I took a few steps away to pull the phone out of her bag. When I turned around, she wasn’t there. I didn’t push my wife.
But yesterday a jury found Aysal guilty of murdering his wife and sentenced him to 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
After the hearing, Naim told reporters: “Our pain is great, but we have been somewhat relieved by the punishment given.
“He couldn’t escape murder. No one will get away with femicide in Turkey.
Femicide is a growing problem in Turkey, especially after the country officially left the Istanbul Convention in July last year.
According to the We Will Stop Femicide Platform’s 2021 annual data report, 280 women were killed by men in 2021, while 217 women were found suspiciously dead.
This article originally appeared on The sun and has been reproduced with permission
