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Man 'chopped his virgin wife's head off because she refused to have children'
A postal inspector went on trial in France today accused of chopping his wife’s head off because she refused to have children.
Philippe Cousin, 53, said he suffered a ‘mid life crisis’ when he approached his half century without a son or daughter.
He blamed it on his 47-year-old wife, Nicole, who was still a virgin despite having been married to him for more than 21 years.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/08/article-1256290-08A146F5000005DC-806_468x259.jpg Philippe Cousin has confessed to killing his wife of 21 years after she refused to have children with him
On April 16th 2007, Cousin telephoned his local police station in Arras, northern France, and told an officer: ‘Excuse me for disturbing you, I’ve killed my wife.’
In a fit of rage following a domestic argument, he had taken a kitchen knife to her neck before slicing her head off.
This morning he appeared before a judge at the Pas-de-Calais assizes at Saint-Omer, near Calais, facing life in prison for murder.
He denies the charge, pleading diminished responsibility, but faces life in prison.
The court heard how Cousins also told police: ‘I’m sorry for the work which I’ ve given you.
'My wife shouted my name out, I decapitated her. You realise that, and I’m not mad!’
While on remand he said his wife’s inability to have children lay at the heart of the couple’s domestic difficulties.
She feared that she would pass on her father’s multiple sclerosis through his genes, the court heard.
This meant that every time he tried to have sex he was rebuffed. An autopsy confirmed that Mrs Cousins was indeed a virgin when she died, even though she married aged 21.
Defending barrister Didier Robiquet said that the problems came to a head two weeks before Cousin’s 50th birthday in what was described as ‘pressure cooker’ syndrome.
‘His wife had threatened to leave him but he had never undergone any psychiatric treatment because of this,’ said Mr Robiquet.
‘He had been hugely frustrated over more than twenty years and this built up into a terrifying repressed aggression which finally exploded. He did not feel he was completely in control of his actions.’
Cousins was described as being of otherwise good character, with a distinguished record as a postal inspector in the Calais region.
He told officers that he was generally feel down about life as he approached 50, and that he had been previously used to sorting out his problems with his wife, whom he loved dearly.
A postal inspector went on trial in France today accused of chopping his wife’s head off because she refused to have children.
Philippe Cousin, 53, said he suffered a ‘mid life crisis’ when he approached his half century without a son or daughter.
He blamed it on his 47-year-old wife, Nicole, who was still a virgin despite having been married to him for more than 21 years.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/08/article-1256290-08A146F5000005DC-806_468x259.jpg Philippe Cousin has confessed to killing his wife of 21 years after she refused to have children with him
On April 16th 2007, Cousin telephoned his local police station in Arras, northern France, and told an officer: ‘Excuse me for disturbing you, I’ve killed my wife.’
In a fit of rage following a domestic argument, he had taken a kitchen knife to her neck before slicing her head off.
This morning he appeared before a judge at the Pas-de-Calais assizes at Saint-Omer, near Calais, facing life in prison for murder.
He denies the charge, pleading diminished responsibility, but faces life in prison.
The court heard how Cousins also told police: ‘I’m sorry for the work which I’ ve given you.
'My wife shouted my name out, I decapitated her. You realise that, and I’m not mad!’
While on remand he said his wife’s inability to have children lay at the heart of the couple’s domestic difficulties.
She feared that she would pass on her father’s multiple sclerosis through his genes, the court heard.
This meant that every time he tried to have sex he was rebuffed. An autopsy confirmed that Mrs Cousins was indeed a virgin when she died, even though she married aged 21.
Defending barrister Didier Robiquet said that the problems came to a head two weeks before Cousin’s 50th birthday in what was described as ‘pressure cooker’ syndrome.
‘His wife had threatened to leave him but he had never undergone any psychiatric treatment because of this,’ said Mr Robiquet.
‘He had been hugely frustrated over more than twenty years and this built up into a terrifying repressed aggression which finally exploded. He did not feel he was completely in control of his actions.’
Cousins was described as being of otherwise good character, with a distinguished record as a postal inspector in the Calais region.
He told officers that he was generally feel down about life as he approached 50, and that he had been previously used to sorting out his problems with his wife, whom he loved dearly.
Who stays married 21 years to a virgin princess? He could have got an annulment and cracked a nut into someone a little more receptive.
And I'm wondering why she was blaming HIS genes for her dad's MS...
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