Woman from the UK given death sentence in India for killing husband over £2m

A woman from the UK, Ramandeep Kaur Mann, has been handed a death sentence by hanging in India for the murder of her husband.

Kaur Mann was convicted by an Indian court for the killing of Sukhjeet Singh, as reported by Mirror UK.

The court in India heard how Kaur Mann had poisoned her family before slitting her husband’s throat on September 2, 2016, in order to inherit £2 million from his life insurance.

Her accomplice Gurpreet Singh was given a life sentence in prison.

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The eyewitness account of the victim’s nine-year-old son played a crucial role in securing the woman’s conviction, who is a British national.

Upon returning from a month-long family holiday to Sukhjeet’s hometown of Shahjahanpur, Kaur Mann executed a plan to kill her husband, with whom she had been for 11 years.

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She carried out the heinous act by poisoning a meal given to several family members, but her eldest son did not consume it.

On the morning of September 2, 2016, Sukhjeet’s lifeless body was discovered on the first floor of the house, where he was sleeping with his family.

Sukhjeet’s mother Vansh Kaur was sleeping on the ground floor of the house, the report said.

Murder charges were filed against Kaur Mann and Gurpreet, and it was revealed during the police investigation that both perpetrators were in a relationship.

The court found them guilty of murder and the offence of criminal acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention.

A judge described the case on Saturday, October 14 as the “rarest of rare” and stated, “Not only Sukhjeet was murdered but the remaining years of an elderly widow was killed, the childhood as well as the youth of two minor children was exterminated. The children have lost the happiness which they had when their father was alive.”

In response to the verdict, Sukhjeet’s mother expressed her satisfaction outside the court, saying, “I feel relieved. My prayers were answered and I got what I was expecting from the court. I was demanding capital punishment for Ramandeep so that no mother’s child dies like this.”