Russian kills wife after reading about her on website

MOSCOW - A man in Russia’s Urals has admitted killing his wife after stumbling across her details on a dating website and discovering that she had cheated on him, Russian media has reported.

The man, from the town of Lysva in Russia’s Perm Territory, found that his wife had registered on the loveplanet.ru dating website as ‘Angel’. He also discovered that she had been having an affair with a married man from the nearby city of Perm.

After reading it, the man began beating his wife on the head. He continued to do so until she was dead.

He faces 15 years behind bars if found guilty of the charges against him.