Life is cheap.

A millionaire owner of a chain of nursing homes in the UK who is of Indian heritage married a young woman of Indian heritage who was from Sweden. The couple honeymooned in the Cape Town area of South Africa where she was killed in a late night carjacking attempt on their taxicab.

It seems the husband wanted to keep the dowry but not the wife. Its understood that an English insurance company had insured the wife's life also. If it is true that he had insured his wife in the UK, then perhaps the UK will try him for murder rather than merely extradite him to South Africa for trial. The cab driver confessed to having received about three thousand dollars for the recruitment of two of his friends who committed the murder.

There are, as yet, no reports of patients in his nursing homes being worried. Yet.

Societies that devalue females provide a great deal of opportunities for killing wives. I understand that an Indian male is expected to arrive late for a wedding as an indication that the proceedings are of no great consequence to him. He is also expected to remain in conversation with his friends during the proceedings to similarly indicate that he takes no great notice of the event. Although some Indian laws seem to ban the payment of dowries it is clear that the practice continues and often continued dowry payments are simply little more than extortion. In poorer households an accident with a cooking stove can take place. In a wealthier household it seems a car jacking in a country with a high crime rate and underpaid police can be utilized. Two weeks? Wow!

On-edit: Why is it that no matter what the financial circumstances of themselves, their families or their business enterprises, they can always find money to hire a media relations consultant?