Monday, April 22, 2024 – A man who stabbed his wife to death because
he wrongly believed she was having an affair with someone else has been jailed
for life.
Rajveer Mahey, 50, repeatedly stabbed
Kamaljeet Mahey, 45, in their garage in Stowlawn, West
Midlands, UK leaving her with catastrophic
wounds to her neck and body.
She received a total of 28 ‘sharp force injuries’ in the attack, which happened
at around 4.35am on December 15 last year and died at the scene.
About two hours later Mahey callrd
relatives who live nearby saying ‘I have killed Kami now – I’m going to kill
myself’.
But he didn’t take his own life, instead he
walked calmly outside to meet his relatives before showing them where he had
left his wife's body in the garage.
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how
Mahey falsely believed that his wife was having an affair with someone at their
work despite being repeatedly told this was untrue.
Defending him, Mr Gurdeep Garcha KC said
Mahey ‘only had himself to blame’ and there was ‘a darker side behind closed
doors’.
He added it was unlikely Mahey’s
children would ever speak to him again.
Sentencing him, Judge Michael Chambers KC
said there was evidence that Kamaljeet fought back and ‘must have suffered’.
He said:
‘This was a brutal and sustained murder in a domestic context with domestic
violence and abuse.
In accordance to the guidelines for such offending that increases the seriousness. 'There was use of a weapon, namely a knife, and the offence
occurred in her own home.’Judge Chambers, who spoke to Mahey through an
interpreter, told him he had shown little remorse for ‘depriving his children
of a much loved member’.
He added that his best mitigation was his
early guilty plea made at the preliminary hearing last month. Judge Chambers said:
‘On the day in question you spoke to her brother-in-law again saying you
suspected she was an an affair.
‘You were clearly still angry and agitated.
‘You knew she did not drink much alcohol,
but unusually you encouraged her to drink some and you were unusually
affectionate to your children.‘A combination of that leads to the clear
inference that you have decided to kill her.‘CCTV shows that at 4.35am you went
with her into the garage. It is right to say that it was usual for her to be
preparing food in the garage at 4am.
‘You lured her into the garage. You did so
in order to to kill her.
‘Loud
screams were recorded at 4.35am. Four minutes later you came out and returned
to the house.
‘It was not
until 6.29am, two hours later, that you called your sister’s number then told
your brother-in-law what you did.’
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