TV exec beheads wife who filed for divorce

Police say an upstate New York television executive who sought to improve the image of Muslims in the media beheaded his wife after she filed for divorce.

Muzzammil Hassan is charged with murdering his wife, Aasiya Hassan. Police say she had an order of protection against her husband and he had been kicked out of the house they shared in Orchard Park, near Buffalo.

Hassan, 44, is accused of cutting off his wife’s head at the TV station where he launched his Bridges TV network in 2004. In an interview with The Associated Press, he said he hoped the network would balance negative portrayals of Muslims following the 9/11 terror attacks.

Hassan surrendered at the police station after his wife’s death.