Wife held over fatal stabbing in village near Loznica
A man of 60 from Korenita, near Loznica in western Serbia, was stabbed in the family home on July 18 and died two days later. His wife is in custody on suspicion of murder.
A woman from the village of Korenita, near Loznica in western Serbia, is in custody on suspicion of killing her husband. The stabbing happened in the family home on July 18. The man was taken to the hospital in Loznica and died there on July 20. That she had been remanded, and that the case is being treated as murder, became public only on July 29, ten days after the attack.
The victim was Radenko Dj., 60, a father of three. He suffered several stab wounds. Doctors admitted him the same day, but the injuries were beyond what surgery could repair.
The suspect is not being named. Until a final verdict she is a suspect in this case and nothing more.
Why the two-day gap matters legally
While the man was alive, the file could have moved forward as grievous bodily harm. His death on July 20 put it in a different bracket altogether. The offence now under consideration is murder under Article 113 of the Criminal Code, which carries five to fifteen years in prison.
Not every case like this ends up there. If intent to kill cannot be proven, what remains is Article 121, grievous bodily harm resulting in death, punishable by two to twelve years. The line between the two is not drawn from the wound itself but from the circumstances of the attack, which is why the autopsy here is not a formality.
The step up is just as narrow. Article 114 sets a minimum of ten years or life imprisonment where the killing is found to have been committed in a cruel manner, for gain, or on one of the other grounds the law lists. Which of the three charges ends up in the indictment will be decided after the autopsy and the forensic reports, not now.
A funeral notice without the wife’s name
The service was held in front of the family house in Korenita, with burial at the village cemetery in late July. The death notice gives the date of death as July 20, 2026, in his sixtieth year.
The mourners listed are his sons, his daughter, his brother and his sister, with their families. His wife is not among them. The funeral had already taken place by the time the public learned she was in custody.
What is known about an earlier clash
Unofficially, this is not the first time the same man was wounded with a knife. According to that account, his wife had already served a prison sentence over an earlier incident in which she injured him.
Neither the prosecution nor the police have confirmed it. If it enters the file as a prior conviction, it is more than background colour. A previous conviction for the same type of offence is one of the circumstances a court weighs when deciding whether there is a risk the offence will be repeated, and that risk is one of the grounds on which detention is ordered and extended.
What comes next
At this stage of the proceedings, detention is ordered for a maximum of 30 days from the moment of arrest. Any extension goes through the court, with a right of appeal, and it does not happen automatically.
The autopsy findings and forensic examination come next. They will shape the charge, and they are the only source that can independently confirm what is so far known only from inside one family house in Korenita.
Nothing official has been said about a motive. One sequence is already fixed, whatever the experts conclude: two days between the stabbing and the death, and another nine before it became public that the wife was in custody.
