{"id":2272,"date":"2006-09-06T17:38:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/09\/06\/husband-murdered-wife-with-baseball-bat\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T16:35:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:35:33","slug":"husband-murdered-wife-with-baseball-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/06\/husband-murdered-wife-with-baseball-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband murdered wife with baseball bat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Birmingham student murdered his wife with a baseball bat in a \u201cplanned and premeditated\u201d attack, a jury has heard.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Anurag Johri, a PhD student at the University of Central England (UCE), bludgeoned his wife to death with a baseball bat he had brought just a day earlier, Birmingham Crown Court was told.<\/div>\n

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His body of his wife, Deepti Anurag, 29, was found at the university campus in November last year. A post mortem revealed she had died from head injuries. <\/div>\n

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Johri had later attempted to commit suicide but was found by police and rushed to hospital. <\/div>\n

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The court was told Anurag bludgeoned his wife to death because he could not accept that she had become financially independent and had left him. <\/div>\n

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He has admitted the manslaughter of his wife but has denied murdering her. <\/div>\n

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Gareth Walters, prosecuting, told the court Johri had pre-planned the murder after buying a baseball bat a day before the murder. He had also, the court heard, logged onto Google to try and search for tips on killing with a baseball bat and not getting caught.<\/div>\n

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Mr Walters told the court that on the day of the murder Johri visited his wife at the business school on UCE campus where she worked. <\/div>\n

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He hid a recording device before returning with a bag of presents and the baseball bat. <\/div>\n

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He waited until she was alone before entering the room she was in with the bag of presents. After a short conversation between them he left, only to return later with the baseball bat which he had hid in a room opposite.<\/div>\n

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“In short he beat his wife with the baseball bat over the head from which she died,” said Mr Walters.<\/div>\n

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CCTV cameras had captured Johri in the moments leading up to the murder while the recording device left by the defendant had recorded sounds including Mrs Anurag\u2019s screams.<\/div>\n

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Johri had dragged his wife\u2019s body under a desk before fleeing and eventually attempting to commit suicide that night. <\/div>\n

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Mr Walters continued: “The prosecution case in short is that when his wife left him and then became more and more independent of him he could not stand it.<\/div>\n

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He described Johri as the \u201cdomineering partner\u201d in the relationship, adding, \u201cthis was a man prepared. He had planned all this. This was a man who knew precisely what he was doing, who was in control of his actions. There was premeditation behind this killing.”<\/div>\n

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The court was also told Mrs Anurag had confided to other members of staff about problems she was having with her estranged husband.<\/div>\n

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The trial continues.<\/div>\n

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