Daily Mail

You can’t return to Britain, Sri Lanka tells grieving newlywed

- By Vanessa Allen

A GRIEVING husband whose bride died on their honeymoon has been banned from coming home to Britain.

Khilan Chandaria, 33, said police in Sri Lanka have told him not to leave the island while they investigat­e the death of his 31-year-old wife Usheila Patel.

The newlyweds were taken to hospital after they both fell ill at their hotel and began vomiting blood. Miss Patel later died in hospital.

Mr Chandaria, a phone shop manager from north London, has not been arrested or charged with any offence.

‘The authoritie­s are not treating me as a culprit but aren’t treating me like a victim either,’ he told The Sun. ‘I don’t want to leave without her.’

The couple married last month and flew out to start their honeymoon on April 23, arriving just after the Easter Sunday suicide bombings which killed

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