A woman murdered her husband – stabbing him at least 35 times – because he criticised her cooking, say Russian law enforcement. Slava Davydkin, 43, was killed after complaining there was not enough salt in a dish she served when guests came to their house in Penza region.
His wife Evgenia, 31, waited until he was asleep and stabbed him to death in front of the couple’s four-year-old child, say reports.
She later confessed to the killing using his angling knife – and is under house arrest.
The couple had quarrelled after the keen fisherman complained the dish she cooked was ‘bland’.
He claimed this meant she ‘did not love him’, it was reported.
The row continued after their guests – a couple – went to bed and the host hit his wife, she claimed.
She was provoked after the meal accompanied by alcohol, she told police.
After repeatedly knifing her sleeping husband, she woke the male guest and asked him to call an ambulance.
Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene.
The Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement: ‘During her interrogation, the accused explained that the reason for the row between the spouses was supposedly a bland dish served at the table.’
Davydkin told her it showed his wife does not love him. It later emerged she stabbed him after he had fallen asleep.
