Chilling moment death row Brit mum’s lover reveals how they killed her husband
The lover of a British mum sentenced to die for murdering her husband has revealed in chilling detail how he helped her carry out the wicked killing.
Gurpreet Singh was jailed for life over his role in the death of childhood friend Sukhjit Singh in India in September 2016.
Mr Singh’s wife, Ramandeep Kaur Mann, 38, from Derby, faces the hangman’s noose after she was found guilty of murder last month.
Her trial heard how she laced her husband’s biryani with sedatives before letting Gurpreet into the family home to kill him.
In a videotaped confession, he tells police Mann confided in him that her husband became abusive whenever he took drugs, saying she was ‘sick and tired of it all’.
It came out during Mann’s trial that their affair began when she went on a family holiday to Dubai to visit him in December 2015.
Gupreet told police he had been at his family’s home in Punjab, northern India, when he got a call from Mann asking him to travel to the village of Bastantapur.
After a 12-hour train ride, he described arriving at around 11.30pm on the night of the murder and was let inside by Mann, MailOnline reports.
Mr Singh was asleep in one of the bedrooms with his two sons, he said.
Gurpreet said they threw a cloth cover over the dog cage ‘so they couldn’t see anything’ before Mann turned to him and said: ‘We’re going to have to kill him.’
Recalling the murder, he went on: ‘She was smothering him with a pillow. I hit him with a hammer over the head. She said, “he’s still not dead”. So, she gave me the knife I bought with me.
‘She gave me the knife and I cut his throat. He was still struggling for breath even after he’d been smothered and hit over the head.
‘I got very scared about what might happen because I’d done such a serious thing.’
He was arrested hours later boarding a flight back home to Dubai.
Last month, Mann broke her silence from behind bars, describing to the Mail her ‘living hell’.
Outlining her new existence at Shahjahanpur District Jail, where she shares a cell with 55 other female inmates and sleeps on the floor, she said: ‘It’s horrendous, it’s like being in hell – both this prison and the bigger situation that I find myself in.
‘It’s the worst thing that has happened to me. I feel so alone, I haven’t made any friends in here and I just keep myself to myself.
‘The food and the conditions are really awful. I don’t speak to anyone, and I don’t want to do anything. I just spend the whole day sitting around crying.’
The jail also houses 1,300 male inmates – including Gurpreet – in a separate section.
It is one of India’s most over-crowded prisons because it only has capacity for 511 inmates.
Mann is the only foreign prisoner in the jail and the only one who is set to be executed.
Jail Superintendent Mijaji Lal said: ‘We are doing our best to look after her because we understand that things must be very difficult for Mann.
‘We’re encouraging her to take up a sport like badminton or run English classes for the other inmates.’
But Mann said: ‘I can’t bring myself to do anything because everything is so horrible and horrendous, I don’t know what the future holds for me.’
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