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| A man has been convicted of murdering a Nepalese student in Glasgow and dismembering and dumping her body. | |
| A jury at the High Court in Glasgow found Roshan Dantis, 30, guilty of killing 23-year-old Kusbuh Shah at her home in Dennistoun on 1 June last year. | A jury at the High Court in Glasgow found Roshan Dantis, 30, guilty of killing 23-year-old Kusbuh Shah at her home in Dennistoun on 1 June last year. |
| He was also convicted of attempting to defeat the ends of justice and extort cash and a TV from Mrs Shah's husband. | |
| Indian-born Dantis was handed a mandatory life sentence and told he must serve at least 24 years in prison. | |
| During the trial, the court heard how Dantis had moved to the UK with his wife Astrid, having previously completed an engineering course in India. | |
| He met Mrs Shah's husband, Nagendra, in 2008 when they started a business masters degree at Strathclyde University. | |
| Mr Shah, 32, told the trial how he and Dantis became "very close" and that he would often confide in him. | |
| It emerged during the trial that Dantis, who earned a low wage as a football steward, had become consumed with jealousy at the Shah's plans to buy a restaurant in Shetland and other purchases such as a second-hand car and large screen TV. | |
| We have ur wife. Don't call police, we are watchin u. If anyone is told we will kill her and u Ransom text sent by Dantis | |
| He formed a plan to kill Mrs Shah and extort £120,000 from her husband. | |
| Dantis compiled lists on his PC which prosecutors claimed was him "costing out" the murder. | |
| This included him detailing the purchase of a meat cleaver, holdalls, balaclava and cleaning solutions. | |
| He also borrowed books from the library including Devil Bones and another on murders, pathology and forensic detection. | |
| Dantis bought the murder weapon from a Chinese supermarket and was caught on CCTV buying holdalls from a store in Glasgow's east-end days before the killing. | |
| On 1 June 2009, Mrs Shah took her young son, Nikhil, to nursery and had planned to meet her husband later that lunchtime. | |
| Body parts dumped | |
| She returned to her home in the city's Coventry Drive and it was there Dantis attacked her at about 1100 BST. | |
| He strangled her before hacking her body with the cleaver. It is thought he cut off her head and limbs while she was slumped in the bath. | |
| Dantis then put her body in a holdall and dumped it in bushes just a short distance from the flat. | |
| He put Mrs Shah's head and hands in bags, along with the cleaver and the top he had been wearing, before ditching them at a nearby railway embankment. | |
| The cleaver used to kill Mrs Shah was found in undergrowth | |
| Mr Shah grew concerned when his wife did not appear and tried repeatedly calling her. | |
| That evening, he received a text from her phone, sent by Dantis, which claimed she had been abducted. | |
| It included the message: "We have ur wife. Don't call police, we are watchin u. If anyone is told we will kill her and u. | |
| "Call ur fat Indian classmate home and sell ur TV to him 300 pounds." | |
| It went on: "Arrange for 120000 pounds and go immediately first train to London. No compromise or u all die." | |
| Mr Shah immediately went to his friend for help but Dantis repeatedly told him not to go the police and agree to the demands. | |
| DNA evidence | |
| Two days later, Mr Shah was sent another text from the "kidnappers" which stated: "This is our final msg to u. We give up searchin for u and follow ur friend. | |
| "Waste of time and money. U will not hr from us again. We go back to London." | |
| Dantis sent this message having bought a new sim card that day. | |
| Mrs Shah's remains were eventually discovered and Dantis's DNA was detected on items such as the holdall that contained her body and the cleaver. | |
| Mrs Shah's remains were discovered inside a holdall | |
| He was also found to have used mobile phones within the area of the Shahs' home around the relevant times. | |
| Police arrested Dantis after days of surveillance on him. | |
| During his interview, he denied being near the Shahs' home on 1 June, but, in court, claimed he had met the demands of a mystery gunman who stormed into his flat. | |
| Dantis said he was told to remove the holdall that had Mrs Shah's body after "things had not gone as expected". | |
| He said that he was being "framed" for the killing and sobbed: "I did not murder Khusbu Shah. That is the truth." | |
| But a jury at the High Court in Glasgow did not believe him and convicted him unanimously of the murder. | |
| Judge Lord Pentland jailed him for life and also recommended that he be deported at the end of the sentence. |