Mangalorean student killed classmate’s wife brutally with cleaver in Scotland.

Mangalore Today News Network

Glasgow, January 11: A Mangalorean student at a Scots university has been jailed for a minimum of 24 years after being found guilty of murdering his classmate’s wife with a meat cleaver and chopping up her body.

 

Roshan Dantis, 30, a Mangalorean was convicted of killing 23-year-old Khusbu Shah by the High Court in Glasgow. The jury took less than two hours to return unanimous guilty verdicts on all three charges.

The Nepalese student’s body was found on June 1 last year dumped near her home in the city. Dantis, who studied business and technology at Strathclyde University with Mrs Shah’s husband Nagendra, was also found guilty of attempting to defeat the ends of justice for trying to cover up the crime.

 

And he was convicted of attempting to extort s120,000 and a television set from Mr Shah. Dantis moved to the UK with his wife Astrid in September 2008 to further his studies.

The Indian engineering graduate enrolled on a business and technology course where he met Mr Shah. He had previously worked in the banking industry in Dubai.
The trial heard how he got a taxi to the couple’s home in Coventry Drive,

Dennistoun, on the morning of June 1, giving the driver the false name Abdul. He is then thought to have launched his assault, strangling her, before cutting her head and hands off.

 

Dantis put his victim’s body in a blue holdall which he had bought from Argos the week before and which was later found dumped in bushes behind the flat.
Plastic bags containing Mrs Shah’s head and hands, the cleaver, a towel, disposable gloves and a blood-stained hooded top were concealed in a railway embankment at a footpath between Whitevale Street and Bathgate Street.
Mr Shah tried contacting his wife at 11.55am as he was supposed to be meeting her at lunchtime.

Later that day he received a text message from Mrs Shah’s phone which read: "We have ur wife. Don’t call police. We are watchin u. "If anyone is told we will kill her and u."

Judge Lord Pentland sentenced Dantis to life with a minimum of 24 years for the murder. He described him as a "vicious and cold-blooded murderer" who carried out the crime with "chilling composure".

 

 Khusbu Shah with husband Nagendra

Lord Pentland said: "Khusbu Shah was a vibrant and loving young wife and mother whose husband was one of your closest friends.

"The jury has heard that you strangled her, then cut off herhead and hands. The exact motive for this appalling crime may never beknown but it may well have been a scheme to extort money from Mr Shah."

The judge said the murder had had a devastating effect on Mrs Shah’s young child and other members of her family.

Dantis was sentenced to a further ten years for each of the other two crimes which will run concurrent to the murder sentence.

Courtesy: The Scottish Sun