Guilty love turns deadly for newlyweds
July 12, 2004 Edition 1
Tehran - An Iranian man who struck a suicide pact with his new bride over their guilt for having pre-marital sex is being held by the police after he backed out of his side of the bargain.
The couple, who were not named, had been married for just two days when, "due to their guilty consciences for having illicit sexual relations, they decided to kill each other at the same time", a judicial official said yesterday.
The man helped to hang his wife but then changed his mind about killing himself and handed himself in to police in the north-eastern Khorasan province, the official said.
Premarital sex is taboo in the Islamic state, where some girls have to go through a virginity test before marrying. - Reuters
