Indian-origin man sentenced to life imprisonment for girlfriend’s ‘brutal’ murder in UK

Raj Sidpara, a 50-year-old nonmigratory of Leicester, was convicted past week of the execution of Tarnjeet Riaz, besides known arsenic Tarnjeet Chagger, pursuing a proceedings astatine Leicester Crown Court.

On Friday, Sidpara was handed a beingness condemnation with a minimum word of 21 years down bars earlier being considered for parole, according to Leicestershire Police.

The mates had been successful a narration for astir 5 months and by the clip exigency services were called to his location connected Tarbat Road connected the day of May 6, Tarnjeet was already dead.

Tarnjeet, 44, was recovered with extended trauma to her face, arsenic good arsenic aggregate breached ribs, erstwhile she was recovered unresponsive by the exigency services, who had been called by Sidpara.

In October, Sidpara admitted the lesser manslaughter complaint of causing the injuries to his woman but denied intending to termination her oregon origin her superior harm.

The tribunal heard that his unfortunate was near with “two tremendous achromatic eyes”, bleeding connected the encephalon and 20 rib fractures, among different injuries. “You person steadfastly refused to explicate what you did oregon why,” Judge William Harbage said, addressing the accused successful court.
“What’s wide is that you attacked her successful a savage and merciless way; you punched, kicked and stamped connected her successful a sustained attack,” a BBC tribunal study read.

The tribunal heard that Sidpara was diagnosed with intoxicant dependence syndrome and had 24 erstwhile convictions for 46 offences, including threats to termination and harassment of erstwhile girlfriends and radical connected to them.

Sidpara’s sentencing comes arsenic Leicestershire Police said it has joined organisations crossed the globe to enactment “White Ribbon Day”, focussed connected targeted enactment astir unit against women and girls.

“Tarnjeet was killed astatine the hands of idiosyncratic she was successful a narration with. Someone who should person supported and protected her, not idiosyncratic she should person feared would brutally onslaught her,” said Senior Investigating Officer Detective Inspector Emma Matts.
“While the idiosyncratic liable volition present walk galore years down bars, Tarnjeet’s household are near with truthful galore questions and the overwhelming feeling of wondering if they could person done more.

We cognize home maltreatment is precise complex. Often victims don’t privation to stock with household and friends the details of what is happening down closed doors, fto unsocial with police, but it is captious anyone suffering gets the enactment they request to enactment a halt to the maltreatment earlier it is excessively late,” she said.