Indianorigin man gets life term in UK for killing wife
Ashwin Daudia, an Indian-origin man who strangled his wife Kiran, put her body in a suitcase and dragged it near their house to dispose it off, was on Friday jailed for life in a widely followed case in the east Midlands city of Leicester.
The incident on January 16 last year was preceded by tense relations between the two, who were married in 1998 and divorced in 2014.
Their house was sold to Kiran’s sister so that she continued to stay there with their two sons without Ashwin.
The Leicester Crown Court was told that both lived in the same house after divorce, but the sale had been completed on January 16 and Ashwin was to move out. They had an altercation when Kiran returned from work and saw Ashwin sleeping, and woke him up.
It was during this altercation that she reportedly told him to go to India to die, which further enraged Ashwin, who said he “lost control” and strangled her. He was said to have later gone about his normal life, until the body was recovered and the police caught up with him.
Judge Timothy Spencer said Ashwin’s conduct represented “selfishness and violence on a wicked scale”, described him as “arrogant, bullying and bent on maintaining control” as opposed to his “academically gifted, outgoing, fashionable and westernised” wife.
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