An Iranian professor at Sweden's prestigious Karolinska medical institute is being held in police custody for cutting off his wife's lips with a knife and then eating them in Stockholm

The Iranian flew into a jealous rage over suspicions that his much younger wife had been having an affair. The Iranian, who is 52, admitted to cutting off his wife's lips in a closed court hearing saying that it was retaliation. The assault was so brutal that the prosecutor tried to have him charged for attempted murder. But the court sought to downgrade the charge to aggravated assault. Ingela Hessius Ekman, who represents the victim, said that her client may have suffered irreparable damage. The Iranian was doing post-Doctoral research at the institute in 2010. He is now employed by a university in Tehran, but still lived partly in Stockholm, where he collaborated with his old research group at the university, and used its email services and library through a declaration of association.