Banker kills wife to hide his sexuality

A judge jailed an “unbelievably callous”
bank worker for life for murdering his
new Indian wife to prevent her revealing
that he was gay, and burning her body.
Jasvir Ginday, 29, is thought to have
strangled his young bride with a vacuum
cleaner pipe before disposing of her body
in a patio incinerator. He told neighbours
that he was disposing of general rubbish.
Ginday was described as a meticulous
planner who was caught on camera filling
a plastic bottle with fuel at a local petrol
station on the day that he killed his wife,
Varkah Rani. The murder came just a
month after she had come to Britain to
live with his family.
Judge John Warner told Ginday that he
had behaved “with a complete lack of any
humanity”.
“I am satisfied that you intended to kill –
you are a devious, controlling man and a
meticulous planner in a number of
aspects of your life,” the judge told
Ginday as he sentenced him to a
minimum of 21 years.
“Killing her was a dreadful enough thing
to have done, but what followed was
horrible almost beyond imagining. You
behaved in an unbelievably casual and
callous way, with a complete lack of any
humanity.
“No one who was in court to hear that
evidence will easily put out of their minds
the image of her body being poked and
prodded by you down into that
incinerator.”
Undated handout photo issued by West Midlands
Police of the home of Jasvir Ginday and Varkha
Rani
Ginday, 29, from Walsall, worked for the
Royal Bank of Scotland and was planning
to take up a job with the Financial
Ombudsman Service. He married his wife
in March last year in a lavish ceremony
with 700 guests in India.
Varkah Rani, 24, came to Britain to live
with Ginday at his parents’ home five
months later, but was a vulnerable
woman living thousands of miles from
home, who had been deceived by her
husband.
“It was a very cruel situation in which
you put her,” said the judge. “You have
told lie after lie about a number of
matters such that it is impossible to rely
on anything you say.”
The killer had claimed that his wife had
attacked him, taken £500 and then walked
out of their home. But the scratches on
his face when he was arrested were
attributed to the victim’s desperate
attempts to save her own life.
Officers discovered the body burned
beyond recognition after confronting
Ginday about fires in the incinerator over
two days. They also discovered a fire-
damaged mattress in parkland behind the
couple’s home.
Speaking after the case, Detective Chief
Inspector Sarbjit Johal, the senior
investigating officer, said: “Ginday got
married as a matter of convenience – he
tricked a poor, innocent girl into marriage
but was living a lie.”
Ms Rani’s cousin, Sunil Kumar, said in a
statement: “No words can truly express
the sadness and hurt my family and I are
experiencing at the loss of Varkha.
“She was loved dearly by all, she had a
great passion for life and doted on her
family. Unfortunately she fell prey to
Ginday, who had ulterior motives which
Varkha would not have appreciated.