Annoyed husband asks police to jail him to escape wife at home

New Delhi : Sometimes police has to encounter strange cases, the case of an Italian man is such when he approached the police recently requesting them to put him under house arrest. The man was earlier convicted for drug-related crimes had been living with his wife since the past few months. But, it became difficult for him to live a domestic life with his wife. So, he requested the cops to put him in prison!

The 30-year-old Albanian man living in Guidonia Montecelio showed up at the police station on Saturday (October 23) and told officers he could no longer stand being under house arrest with his wife. He “was no longer able to cope with the forced cohabitation with his wife,” Carabinieri police from nearby Tivoli said in a statement, according to AFP. 

“Exasperated by the situation, he preferred to escape, spontaneously presenting himself to the Carabinieri to ask to serve his sentence behind bars,” the cops said.

According to the reports, he had been under house arrest for drug related cases in recent times and he had few more years left to serve his punishment.

The man wants to serve his remaining punishment in jail as differences between him and his wife have grown too much.

Incidentally, his appeal worked  as he was charged for violating house arrest rules. He was detained straight away and the judicial authorities ordered local police officers to transfer the drug criminal to jail, national newspaper Il Corriere della Sera reported.