The woman was killed with a sword in front of her children's eyes. The husband is now being prosecuted, suspected of murder and gross violation of a child's integrity, local media in Värmland report.
It was at the beginning of August that the man, according to the indictment, struck his wife with a sword in their home in Arvika. The children, who witnessed the event, raised the alarm, but the woman's life could not be saved.
The man denies the crime.