A married man has been jailed for life in Turkey for killing his beautiful mistress during a row when he accidentally called her by his wife’s name during sex.

The incident took place in the district of Maltepe in the north-western Turkish city of Istanbul on 9th December 2019.

Abdulselam Gunay, a married father-of-two whose age was not given, struck Didem Mengu, 30, his lover of almost a decade, over the head with a cobblestone and then strangled her with curtain cord during a heated argument.

The defendant, who was on trial in Istanbul, said: “We met up in the evening, drank alcohol, and had sex. Then we started arguing and I got really angry and hit her head with a cobblestone.

“When I realised she was dead, I drove off in her car and came back to the flat later that day. I put her body in a suitcase and kept her phone with me.”

Reports said the row happened because he called the victim by his wife’s name while they were in bed together.

The victim’s mother Serpil Aksal Koseoglu told the Anatolian 16th High Criminal Court: “He first hit my daughter’s head with a cobblestone and then strangled her. What kind of anger is this? What could my child have done to deserve to be killed this way?”

The court found him guilty of “deliberate killing” and sentenced him to life in prison.

The legal team for the man bizarrely appealed for a reduced sentence because the incident had ruined the defendant’s life as well, but the request was rejected by the court as a clear sign that he was not remorseful about what he had done.

In a further sign of their annoyance at his lack of remorse, the court also ordered the Istanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office to consider further charges against the man after he took the victim’s bicycle, car, and mobile phone after killing her.