Gay Strangles Wife,Burns Her Body After Marrying Her To Hide His Sexuality

A bank worker, who married to conceal his homosexuality, is currently in court after he strangled his wife with a metal vacuum pipe and tried to destroy her remains in an incinerator. DailyMail reports that 30 year old Jasvir Ram Ginday had agreed to wed 24 year old Rani, even though he had confided in a friend years earlier that he was attracted to men, just to please his parents. He married Varkha Rani in a lavish ceremony in India last March only to kill her months later in September because he was unable to pretend to be straight.

Before their marriage, Ginday had travelled to India with his mother to find a bride and met several women before a match-maker known to both families introduced him to Miss Rani. Prosecutor Debbie Gould told a jury the couple became engaged ‘at the end of a meeting which lasted several hours’, with Miss Rani’s family believing Ginday to be ‘a perfect match for their intelligent, well-educated, and attractive young daughter’. The bride, who had completed a degree and a master’s degree in science and information technology in India, moved to the UK to live with Ginday in August after being granted a visa.

But just a month later, police discovered the unrecognisable remains of the 24-year-old bride in the back garden of the home they shared with other members of Ginday’s family. Ginday had strangled his wife before forcing her body into the 22-inch deep incinerator and setting it alight. Then he called police that night to report her missing – claiming she had walked out after assaulting him and had only married him for a visa to get into the UK.

A witness, Miss Gould said:

‘His ultimate intention was to play the role of victim, safe in the knowledge that he could rely on his married status as a permanent excuse for never having another relationship with a woman...his respectability and that of his family’s would be secured.’

Ginday and his wife had been alone in the house at Walsall, West Midlands, on September 12, the day of the murder. That afternoon, neighbours saw smoke and likened the smell to that which comes from a crematorium. When one concerned resident knocked on Ginday’s door, he claimed he was simply burning rubbish. Although Ginday had attempted to destroy his wife’s body, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard that a woman police constable ‘lifted the lid (of the incinerator) and found herself looking down on a human skull which was severely burnt’. Officers also discovered Miss Rani’s wedding ring inside the 22-inch deep incinerator.

However, Ginday denies a charge of murder but has admitted manslaughter and a further charge of perverting the course of justice by lying to police. His trial continues.