A British tourist has been arrested on charges of stabbing his 26-year-old wife to death with a screwdriver in a hotel room in Turkey.
According to reports, the suspect allegedly stabbed his wife 41 times with a screwdriver.
The 26-year-old woman was found dead at around 12:30pm local time on Tuesday, at the Ulubat Castle Hotel in Istanbul’s Fatih Mevlanakapı District, reported Daily Mail.
According to reports, hotel staff heard ‘sounds’ coming from the room and then found the victim lying in a pool of blood.
Medical teams later reached the scene and pronounced the victim as ‘dead’.
The woman was discovered with lacerations on her throat and across her body, examiners concluding she had been killed with a screwdriver, according to Daily Mail.
Turkish police launched an investigation into the matter.
The suspect allegedly confessed his crime and said he threw the screwdriver in the hotel room’s toilet.
The British Foreign Office told MailOnline in a statement: “We have not been approached for consular assistance, but our staff stand ready to support British nationals abroad 24/7.”