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ISLAMABAD: Shahnawaz Amir — the son of senior journalist Ayaz Amir who was taken into custody by the Islamabad police earlier in the day for being a suspect in his wife’s murder — has said that he “thought” his spouse was having an affair with someone else.
According to sources, during the preliminary investigation of the case, the suspect told the police that he had tied the knot with the deceased three months ago and that she was his third wife.
‘Met Sara on social media’
“I had met Sara on social media. She returned to Islamabad from Dubai yesterday. I thought she had an affair with someone else but she has assured me that she was not seeing anyone,” Shahnawaz told the police, per sources.
According to sources, he further told the police that he suspected the deceased was “some other country’s agent” and that he “felt that she was plotting to kill him.”
‘Sara tried to strangle me’
During interrogation, the suspect said that Sara had tried to strangle him after which he pushed her away from him.
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“Sara tried strangling me at about 9:30am. I thought I would die so I pushed her away and she fell,” he told the police, per sources. “She got up and attacked me again, so I grabbed my dumbbells which were lying nearby and hit her on the head.”
The suspect further maintained that after he hit his wife, the room was filled with blood which sent him into a state of panic.
“I, therefore, placed Sara’s body in a bathtub to clean the blood stains,” he said, according to the sources, adding that he took a picture of the bathtub and sent it to his father, Ayaz Amir.
The suspect also said that he called his father and narrated the whole incident, after which the journalist informed the police.
