NRI optician jailed for wife’s murder

London, Oct. 08, 2005
Ashok Gupta

NRI (non-resident Indian) Narendra Tailor, 39, was sentenced jail for life for on charges of murdering his wife Sheila. He changed his plea half-way through the trial. Manjinder Binning, receptionist of Narendra Tailor ,34, was sent to prison for a minimum 16 years for helping her boss

Tailor also knew that after death of his wife, he would claim £250,000 in life insurance

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London, Sep. 22, 2005
telegraph.uk

An optician who strangled his wife to avoid the public shame of being named as an adulterer yesterday admitted her murder.

Narendra Tailor, a Hindu, had been unfaithful to his wife, Sheila, but could not face going through with a divorce because of the humiliation he would face among his peers.

Narendra Tailor changed his plea to guilty
Instead he hatched an elaborate plan that involved him drugging Mrs Tailor over a period of time before killing her and claiming that she was murdered because of her involvement with a drug dealer.

Tailor, 39, also knew that his wife's death would gain him about £250,000 in life insurance and endowments.

He had initially denied murder, but yesterday changed his plea at Leicester Crown Court.

His trial was told that he killed his wife at their home in Oadby, Leics, last December, before hiding her body in her car and calmly going to watch their two children in a school nativity play.

The following day, he drove the car, with Mrs Tailor'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.

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.

Killed: Sheila Tailor
He finally hit her over the head and strangled her in their kitchen.

Tailor 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.

Gregory Dickinson, prosecuting, told how Tailor later reported his wife missing.

He added: "For all the time he reported her missing he knew exactly where her body was. He had killed her. He had strangled her to death."

He said that when police found her body: "Mrs Tailor's clothes were arranged to make it look as though she had been the victim of a sexual assault, but she had not.

''It was not a spur-of-the-moment, hot-blooded killing. It was a carefully planned, cold-blooded killing.

''His intention was that when his wife's body was found everybody would come to the wrong conclusion that she had been killed by another man."

Yesterday Tailor wept as he admitted murder. His part-time receptionist, Manjinder Binning, of Rushey Mead, Leicester, still denies murder but has admitted perverting the course of justice.

The jury has been told that Binning, 34, accepts that she helped Tailor to dispose of his wife's body but denies taking part in the murder itself.

Wife 'killed and dumped by optician having affair'

By Nick Britten
telegraph.co.uk

(Filed: 22/09/2005)

An optician murdered his wife and hid her body in the boot of her car for a month to avoid the shame of being named as an adulterer, a court heard yesterday.

Narendra Tailor, who was having an affair, also knew that he could claim up to £500,000 in life insurance and endowments after the death of his wife, Sheila.

After strangling her, he and his part-time receptionist, Manjinder Binning, 34, put her body on the back seat in her Audi and Tailor calmly went to watch their two children star in a Nativity play at their private school, it was claimed.

The next day he allegedly abandoned the car, with the body covered by a blanket, in the middle of Leicester, where it went undiscovered for a month.

When the body of Mrs Tailor, 34, was found, Tailor, 39, and Binning hatched a complex plan to suggest that his wife had been involved in an affair with a drug dealer and died after a violent sex-attack.

Gregory Dickinson, prosecuting, told Leicester Crown Court that Mrs Tailor was first reported missing by her husband on Dec 10 last year.

But he added: "For all the time he reported her missing he knew exactly where her body was. He had killed her. He had strangled her.

"Mrs Tailor's clothes were arranged to make it look as though she had been the victim of a sexual assault, but she had not.

"It was not a spur-of-the-moment, hot-blooded killing. It was a carefully planned, cold-blooded killing. He hatched a plan that was utterly wicked.

"His intention was that when his wife's body was found, everybody would come to the wrong conclusion that she had been killed by another man.

"For him the benefit was not that she was just out of the way. He might also get £500,000 through various life insurances and endowment policies."

Mr Dickinson told the jury that Mrs Tailor's marriage was "not happy". Both she and her husband, a Hindu who owned two optician shops, in Leicester and Sleaford, Lincs, had affairs. Mrs Tailor's relationship with a work colleague had ended by January 2004 but at the time of her death Tailor was seeing a woman called Bhavna Patel.

Mr Dickinson said: "There must have been times when both Narendra Tailor and Sheila Tailor wondered if it was the right thing to do to get a divorce.

"For Narendra Tailor, divorce carried with it certain risks and repercussions - the loss of his children, the family home and the fact that he would be accused of adultery, which might not go down well at the temple.

"So what he decided to do was to murder his wife. He hatched a plot that was as carefully planned as it was utterly wicked.

"Her death meant he would also not get the disapproval of the community as an adulterer but the sympathy of the community."

Tailor allegedly tried to put "the spotlight of suspicion" on another man by inventing the fictitious affair between his wife and a supposed drug dealer.

Binning allegedly helped him by making a series of calls between two mobiles to suggest that Mrs Tailor had been abducted during a drug deal.

"It was Narendra Tailor who killed her, but he received considerable support and assistance from Manjinder Binning, both in the days leading up to the killing and in the immediate aftermath of it," said Mr Dickinson.

The court heard that, when interviewed by police, Tailor insisted that his wife went missing in December and he never saw her again. The couple had two children, a 10-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son.

Binning claims that Tailor murdered his wife and that she did not know what she was getting herself into, said Mr Dickinson.

Tailor, of Oadby, Leics, and Binning, from Leicester, deny murder. Binning has admitted a charge of perverting the course of justice.

The trial continues.

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