A 50-year-old man has been charged for allegedly murdering his 46-year-old wife in Western District. He will appear in Eastern Magistracy Tuesday.

At about 6pm on October 7, Police received a report that the man was lying on the awning of a building at 554-560 Queen's Road West. He was taken to Queen Mary Hospital for treatment.

Officers then identified the man's home on the third floor of building and found a woman's body with neck injuries lying on a bed inside the bedroom.

Police suspect the man killed his wife before leaping from the building's top floor.