NRI optician jailed for
wifes 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
Read below:
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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