Police say a West Valley City man threatened, choked and held his wife prisoner for six days — and his parents helped.
Feroz Sediqi has been charged in 3rd District Court with attempted murder and aggravated kidnapping, first-degree felonies; aggravated assault, a second-degree felony; and violation of a protective order, a third-degree felony.
According to police, Sediqi's wife told him on March 8 that she was leaving him. As she tried to leave his residence, he grabbed her, pulled her into a bedroom and locked the door. When the woman said she wanted to leave, he called her names, grabbed her “and told her, 'The only way you can leave is if you leave this earth.'”
After telling her he was going to kill her and himself, Sediqi “grabbed her throat with both hands and squeezed until she lost consciousness.” She told police that when she awoke, Sediqi said, “Now I really have to kill you” and he “strangled her to unconsciousness a second time.”
According to a probable cause statement, when the woman awoke a second time Sediqi said “he was going to kill himself and she had to watch.” The statement said he cut himself with a knife “and his parents entered the room, helped him with his cuts and told [her] not to leave.”
Sediqi took away his wife’s phone and keys and told his family to “watch her when he went to work and make sure she didn’t leave,” police said. His family “eventually left her alone” and she was able to escape from the home March 14.
The woman had an active protective order against Sediqi in the state of Washington that prohibits him from “contacting, threatening or abusing” her.
According to court documents, Sediqi’s parents — listed in court documents as Ghulum Sediky, 89, and Fauzia Sediky, 66 — told police they did not know where their son was and had no contact with him. Their cell phones indicated they had been in contact with Feroz Sediqi, and U.S. Marshalls “had electronic evidence of the wanted fugitive coming and going from the residence.”
They were arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of harboring a fugitive, a third-degree felony.
