Husband stabs wife to death in 'crime of passion'

(ANSA) - Terni, October 29 - A 66-year-old man stabbed his 36-year-old wife to death Tuesday night in what police said was "a crime of passion" following an argument, sources said Wednesday.
    Franco Sorgenti, a retired AST steel plant technical consultant, attacked his wife Laura Livi in their home in the Umbrian city of Terni, fatally stabbing her in the abdomen with a large kitchen knife while their daughters, aged two and seven, slept in another room.
    He immediately left the house and turned himself in to police, confessing to the crime.