Indian Origin Man Who Stuffed Wife’s Body Into Suitcase After Killing, Jailed

An Indian-origin UK man on trial for killing his ex-wife and then stuffing her body into a suitcase was on 3 Feb sentenced to a minimum of 18 years in jail for murder.

Ashwin Daudia had denied the murder charge, claiming he lost his temper during an argument with Kiran Daudia at their home in Leicester last January and did not attack her deliberately.

But the jury did not accept his version of events and found him guilty of killing the 46-year-old call centre worker. The 51-year-old accused was caught on CCTV dragging his ex-wife's body in a suitcase before dumping it in an alleyway.

"I was angry, I lost control," he told the Leicester Crown Court, adding that Kiran Daudia had initially assaulted him and to silence her he put his hand over her mouth and then forcefully squeezed her neck.

The prosecution claimed that Daudia, who followed the court proceedings through a Gujarati interpreter, had continued to lie about the circumstances surrounding the killing and had committed the murder after growing increasingly resentful of his ex-wife, who had joined a dating agency to meet other men.