Mom drugged husband so lover could kill him

File picture

File picture

Published Sep 11, 2016

Share

London - A mother has been accused of lacing her husband’s dinner with sleeping pills before she and her lover murdered him as he slept next to his sons.

Police in India claim Ramandeep Kaur Mann, 31, has admitted to colluding with her lover – her husband’s best friend – in the murder of Sukhjit Singh, 34, who was found in bed with his throat slit.

The Derby couple and their two children travelled to India last month to visit relatives and meet up with her husband’s childhood friend, Gurpreet Singh.

But unbeknown to Sukhjit Singh, a devout Sikh, his wife was allegedly having an affair with Gurpreet Singh – someone he was so close to he referred to as his ‘brother’.

Mann is said to have told police that after putting sleeping pills in her family’s dinner, she let her lover into her mother-in-law’s home in Banda, south-east of Delhi. Gurpreet Singh struck her husband with a hammer, after which Mann allegedly smothered him with a pillow.

As the couple’s two sons - aged just six and nine - slept by their father’s side, Gurpreet Singh then cut his friend’s throat with a butcher’s knife he had brought with him, police claim.

Gurpreet Singh was arrested moments before he was due to board a flight to Dubai. When Mann heard of his arrest she confessed to her hand in the killing, police said. It is unclear whether she is being held in India.

Mann, who works as a manager at an Argos store in Derby, was said to have resented her husband of more than ten years after he refused to divorce her, telling her: ‘I cannot leave you.’

Her affair with Gurpreet Singh is thought to have begun during a family holiday to visit him in Dubai last November. Mobile phone records have revealed they texted and spoke often in the weeks after the trip.

Sukhjit and Gurpreet had been school friends in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and remained close after Sukhjit moved to Britain, where he married Mann in 2005.

The couple had owned a pizza shop in Carshalton, south London, before moving to Derby several years ago where Mr Singh became a leading member of the local Sikh community. Mann grew up in Slough, Berkshire, and studied graphic design at Thames Valley University.

Mr Singh was planning to launch his own transport company after returning from the holiday.

Last night Mann’s family denied claims that her husband was murdered and claimed he was killed in a land dispute. They also strongly deny the Indian police version of events and are preparing to launch a legal battle to free her.

[email protected]

Daily Mail

Related Topics: