“We had no intention of killing him.” In Namangan, a woman who hired a killer to murder her husband and her lover were sentenced to 8.5 years in prison

“We had no intention of killing him.” In Namangan, a woman who hired a hitman to kill her husband and her lover were sentenced to 8.5 years in prison

In Namangan region, a woman who attempted to hire a hitman to kill her husband and her lover were sentenced to 8 years and 6 months of imprisonment.

It was established that N.M., born in 1989, had been living with M.B. in a religious marriage (nikah) since 2011. They had one daughter during their marriage.

At the beginning of 2025, N.M. met X.T., born in 1992, at a dental clinic and later established a close relationship with him. In August 2025, after M.B. found out about this, conflicts began between the spouses.

M.B. demanded that X.T. buy a house in N.M.’s name, threatening that otherwise he would tell his family about their relationship and disgrace them. Following this, X.T. bought an apartment in N.M.’s name, initially paying 10 thousand dollars. After that, he also made the monthly mortgage payments for the house himself.

In February 2026, N.M. contacted her acquaintance T.Q. and asked him to find someone to kill her husband M.B. In exchange, 6 thousand dollars was offered, and X.T. initially gave T.Q. 1 thousand dollars as an advance.

However, instead of executing the order, T.Q. contacted the internal affairs bodies. He handed over the 1 thousand dollars given to him and the audio recording of the conversation with N.M. to law enforcement agencies. Following this, an operational event was conducted.

Staged “death”

On March 4, 2026, as part of the operation, M.B. was presented as if he had been killed. Depicting injuries on his body, photos and videos of him in a “killed” state were prepared.

The images were shown to N.M. and X.T. They believed that M.B. had indeed been killed. Following this, N.M. and X.T. were detained by operational officers while handing over 5.5 thousand dollars to T.Q.

According to N.M., M.B. had regularly beaten her. After he found out about her relationship with X.T., the arguments escalated even further. For this reason, she stated that she had asked T.Q. not to kill her husband, but to beat him up severely and scare him.

“My husband regularly beat me. After he found out that I was talking to X.T. on the phone, the arguments escalated even further. So I asked to beat him up severely and scare him,” N.M. said in her court testimony.

According to N.M., the proposal of murder was initially made by T.Q. himself. When she asked to beat and scare her husband, T.Q. said that the victim might later contact the Internal Affairs Department and the crime would be exposed. After that, he proposed to “eliminate” him completely.

T.Q. also testified as a witness in court. According to him, in February 2026, N.M. called and asked for help in solving a problem.

“They met with me and asked to find someone to kill M.B. The murder proposal came precisely from them, specifically from N.M. They said that 6 thousand dollars would be given for this. After that, I reported the situation to the internal affairs bodies,” T.Q. said in his testimony.

In court, M.B. denied his wife’s testimony about him regularly beating her. According to him, he did not beat N.M. At the same time, M.B. stated that he had no claims against the defendants, and saying that his 14-year-old daughter needs a mother’s love, he asked to impose a non-custodial sentence on N.M. and X.T.

The Namangan City Court on Criminal Cases found N.M. and X.T. guilty under Articles 25, 28, and Paragraph “p” of Part 2 of Article 97 of the Criminal Code. Each of them was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months of imprisonment.