Indian woman who killed lover’s wife gets life term

A 23-year-old Indian student in the UK, who killed her lover’s pregnant wife in a rage...

A 23-year-old Indian student in the UK, who killed her lover’s pregnant wife in a rage, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Judge John Saunders told Harmohinder Sanghera at the Manchester Crown Court that the sentence reflected the degree of planning she put into the murder and the fact that her victim was pregnant.

The judge told her she would serve at least 14 years before being considered for release.

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Sanghera, a dentistry student at Birmingham University, carried out the “ferocious and sustained” attack on Sana Ali (17) because she realised that her two-year relationship with the teenager’s husband, Sair, was coming to an end.

On May 11, she took a 6 1/2-inch kitchen knife from her home in Solihull, West Midlands, and drove to Bury in Greater Manchester. Ali knew Sanghera as a family friend and invited her in.

The teenager was attacked in a bedroom and stabbed 43 times. Many of the blows were directed at her abdomen and the deepest wound she suffered had gone into her stomach. “Whoever stabbed her had deliberately lifted up her top and stabbed her in the abdomen,” said Peter Wright.

Sanghera tried to convince the jury that she had made the trip simply to tell Ali of the affair and then finish it.

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