A woman accused of stabbing her husband to death and severing his penis has been seized by police in Argentina.

Florencia Amado Cattaneo, 41, is said to have mutilated her horn-player husband’s genitals in a frenzied attack.

Victim Pedro Federico Zarate’s body was reportedly found at the couple’s flat in Altos de San Lorenzo with the knife embedded in his eye.

Amado Cattaneo – a psychologist – was arrested on 11th January after fleeing to her mother’s house “with bloodstains on her hands”, her sister told local media.

Her husband’s body was found by his sister-in-law on the bed at the apartment he shared with his wife and five-year-old son.

He had stab wounds all over his body, including his chest, and his genitals were mutilated, according to local media reports.

Amado Cattaneo has been admitted to the psychiatric ward of a medical centre in La Plata, where she will undergo tests.

If she is ruled mentally incompetent, she will not go on trial, say investigators and the Prosecutor’s Office.

Pedro, 47, was a trumpet player and a music producer. He had worked at the Estacion Provincial cultural centre in La Plata since 2006.

A native of Cordoba, he had married Amado Cattaneo in 2017.

Cattaneo had been employed by the General Directorate of Culture and Education of the Province of Buenos Aires since 2012.