CARNAL NATION

An HIV-positive man has confessed to injecting his blood into his sleeping wife and infecting her with the virus that can cause AIDS.

It is believed the man wanted to give her the disease so she would start having sex with him again, New Zealand's Sunday Star-Times newspaper said. The man, 35, twice pricked his 33-year-old wife with a sewing needle laced with his infected blood after she refused to have sex with her husband for fear of contracting the disease.

In the documents, the wife described how in May 2008 she found a sting-like mark on her left thigh and two days later awoke to a stinging feeling in her leg. During a routine check-up four months later, doctors revealed she was HIV-positive.

The husband faces up to 14 years in jail when he is sentenced at Auckland High Court next year.