There’s something so deeply sinister about killing your partner in your marital home. Whether or not you have kids, that’s the place where you would come together as a family unit to enjoy each other’s company and plan your future. It all seems so incredibly heartbreaking and scary when things escalate to that level of violence in a place that may have once been so sacred. Tragically, a woman in the UK met an untimely death when her husband stabbed her to death in their home. The couple separated, and about a week later, the woman’s body was discovered in the garden of the house she previously shared with her husband.
A Welsh man stabbed his estranged wife to death and buried her body in their garden.
According to the BBC, Paria Veisi disappeared from Cathays, Cardiff, on April 12, 2025, and her body was discovered a week later in the garden of the house that she had previously shared with her husband. Alireza Askari, 42, admitted to killing his wife at a hearing in January 2026.
Veisi had separated from her husband and moved out of their family home earlier that month, The Guardian reported. The 37-year-old was reported missing by concerned loved ones, per Wales Online.
Authorities found Veisi’s body buried in a “makeshift grave” in the backyard of their home, concealed by patio slabs, mounds of soil, and newly planted flowers, per The Guardian.
In a sick twist, the husband had some help from a close relative after the murder of his wife.
They say that blood is thicker than water, but this is all sorts of depraved.
According to William Hughes, the prosecutor in the court case, Askari killed his wife in the conservatory of the home at approximately 4:30 p.m. on April 12, 2025, before attempting to destroy any evidence of the crime with the help of his aunt, Maryam Delavary, The Guardian reported.
A forensic exam of the body found that Veisi suffered from four stab wounds to the neck and two slash wounds, per the BBC. The pathologist for the case concluded that Askari could have used a small knife from a pack that he had bought on the day he carried out the murder. The murder weapon was never recovered, BBC reported.
According to the BBC, Delavary “admitted [to] perverting the course of justice” by assisting her nephew in the disposal of his estranged wife’s body. The judge told Delavary “you were in it together,” and she was sentenced to more than five years in prison, per the BBC.
Askari was sentenced to more than 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife.
In March 2026, Askari was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 26 years for the “cold-blooded murder” of his wife, The Guardian reported.
According to the BBC, within minutes of committing the murder, Askari had changed his clothes and went to a nearby recreational center where he showered before enjoying some time in the pool. When he was on his way home that day, he stopped to purchase bleach and other supplies to clean the conservatory area where the murder took place.
Both Askari and Delavary told authorities during the investigation that they did not know where Veisi had gone, but said she had a boyfriend in Iran, per the BBC. It turns out that it was Askari who had been in contact with a girlfriend in Iran leading up to his wife’s murder, even sending text messages about his plan to kill Veisi.
To throw the police off track, Askari sent text messages from his wife’s phone after the murder to her boss and her loved ones, telling them that she was leaving the UK and her phone would be off for a while, per the BBC.
That is truly diabolical behavior. We can only hope that the sentencing in the court case brings Veisi’s family some peace and a sense of justice.
If you or someone you know has been the victim of domestic abuse, you can find help and support at DVIS.org, the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or by contacting your local women’s shelter through domesticshelters.org.
