NRI optician admits killing wife

A non resident Indian optician has admitted before a British court to have murdered his wife and hid her body in her car boot to avoid the public shame of being named an adulterer.

Narendra Tailor, 39, had initially denied murdering Sheila in December 2004, but changed his plea Wednesday at Leicester Crown Court.

Tailor had been unfaithful to his wife, but could not face going through a divorce because of the humiliation he would face among his peers. He had intended to suggest that his 34-year-old wife had been having an affair with a drug dealer and died after a violent attack.

Instead he hatched an elaborate plan to drug his wife over a period of time before killing her and claiming that she was murdered because of her involvement with a drug dealer.

Tailor also knew that his wife's death would gain him about 250,000 pounds (nearly Rs 200,00000) in life insurance and endowments.

His trial was told that as part of his "utterly wicked" scheme, Tailor spent weeks secretly doping his wife with ecstasy to make it appear that she was involved in drugs.

He finally hit her over the head and strangled  her in their home in Oadby, Leics, before hiding her body in her car and calmly going to watch his children in a school nativity play.

The following day, he drove the car, with Sheila's body hidden under a coat in the back seat, and abandoned it in the middle of Leicester. It remained there for a month before police were called.

Gregory Dickenson, prosecuting, said: "For all the time he reported her missing he knew exactly where the body was. He had killed her. He had strangled her to death."