"Beat & Release": Wife and Her Lover, Husband's Brother, Killed Husband With Rat Poison, in Istanbul

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 22 June 2025)

                    "To your health, dear husband."

In Esenyurt, Istanbul, on 28 April 2024, Halime Çevik (29) 

came home from shopping to find her husband Eyüp Çevik

(37) lying on the floor.  The young woman called the police

and medics arriving at the house  pronounced her husband

dead. 

However (!), police characterized the death as "suspicious"

and sent Eyüp Çevik's body to the police forensic lab. 

Meahwhile, Halime hanım went with her husband's brother

Hüseyin Çevik and her two children to Mardin.  

But Hüseyin bey had a crisis of conscience and confessed to

killing his brother with rat poison (!) owing to his affair with

Halime hanım.  He said he bought the rat poison and gave

it to Halime hanım to put in Eyüp bey's food.  Halime hanım,

though, denied the accusation, but both she and Hüseyin bey

were jailed. 

A decision was handed down in the court at Bakırköy, Istanbul,

such that Halime hanım was given a "life sentence", reduced 

from a "severe life sentence" - "in consideration of the effect

on her social life" (!).  Hüseyin bey was sentenced to 16 years

and 8 months for "assisting a murder".  

Lives to bite another day...