Man beheads girlfriend for refusing his marriage proposal

A jilted boyfriend has beheaded his girlfriend for refusing his marriage proposal before he then tried, unsuccessfully, to end his own life by stabbing himself in the stomach.

Teacher Shyngys Bekenov, 26, proposed to Nazerke Bekzhanova, 21, who had recently graduated from medical university.

The couple had been seen talking animatedly several hours before her body was found in a village in Kazakhstan.

But it is believed that she refused because her parents didn’t approve of him.

“Furious” over her rejection, Bekenov used a knife to sever her head as they sat in his Daewoo Nexia, according to police.

The man then tried but failed to end his own life by stabbing himself in the abdomen after writing a suicide note asking that they should be buried together.

Bekenov has been detained in hospital in a “grave but stable” condition with knife wounds and will be moved to detention.

He faces a charge of murder with a minimum sentence of 15 years.

His note confirmed he had beheaded the woman after she told him she would marry him, it was reported.

The woman’s beheaded body was found in the car near a dam on the edge of Tasboget village, five miles from Kyzylorda city.