A husband chopped off his wife’s hand with a meat clever after accusing her of having an affair when she fled to Shanghai to escape him.
The 28-year-old woman had her entire hand hacked off before her husband chopped off her fingers from her bloody, severed palm.
She had reportedly moved from Sichuan province to Shanghai in an attempt to get away from her husband after he reportedly subjected her to repeated domestic violence.
The man was able to track her down down and then attacked her with a cleaver, he was then arrested and the woman was taken to hospital for emergency treatment.
It is understood doctors attempted to reattach her hand and fingers but were unsuccessful.
She described her husband as a person who appeared kind but who in fact hides an alternative ‘extreme personality’ which only showed itself when they were alone in private.