Woman slashed 14 times by husband over jealousy in Sabah attack

In a village in northern Sabah, a Thursday morning conversation between a woman and her neighbour became the pretext for a brutal act of jealousy that has left a mother of six fighting for her life. Her husband of nineteen years, a 50-year-old Indonesian national, allegedly retrieved a parang and inflicted fourteen slash wounds upon her before fleeing — a violence that was not born in a single moment, but had been building through repeated accusations and suspicion. She survives, critically, while he remains at large, and the law moves to account for what unchecked jealousy can do within the w