Brooklyn battery: Pakistani convicted of wife’s murder

Noor Hussain, 75, faces up to 25 years to life when he is sentenced next month.

NEW YORK: A US judge convicted an elderly Pakistani immigrant on Thursday of murdering his wife in their New York home, savagely beating her over the head after she refused to cook the food he wanted. Noor Hussain, 75, who believed it was his right to “discipline” his wife, faces up to 25 years to life when he is sentenced next month. He subjected Nazar, 66, his third wife, to at least 15 years of abuse and on the night of April 2, 2011 battered her 20 times around the head and body in their Brooklyn apartment. Hussain, who immigrated to the US 30 years ago, admitted he struck her with a wooden stick after she made lentils rather than the goat dinner he wanted, and “disrespected” him by swearing at him. His lawyer Julie Clark had argued for manslaughter in the second degree, saying he did not intend to kill her.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 31^st, 2014.