Police are expected to lay charges on a 31-year-old wife of the German National who was found dead in his home earlier on this week in Sigatoka.

Divisional Crime Officer Western SP Vijay Singh confirmed that charged are expected to be laid tonight and the woman will be produced in court tomorrow.

The woman stabbed herself five times with a kitchen knife after the discovery of the partially decomposed body of her husband.

Post mortem report of the deceased revealed that he died of a fractured skull.