A 24-year-old man who had pleaded responsible to the homicide of his 19-year-old Indian nationwide spouse Mehak Sharma has been sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimal time period of 15 years earlier than being thought-about for parole.
Sahil Sharma, additionally an Indian nationwide, was arrested on the scene on suspicion of the homicide of Mehak who was discovered with stab accidents at Ash Tree Means in Croydon, the couple’s residential handle in south London, in October final 12 months.
The Metropolitan Police mentioned he was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court docket on Friday, having pleaded responsible to the homicide of Mehak on the similar courtroom in February.
“This can be a tragic case that has fully devastated a household. In killing his spouse, Sharma has robbed her household of a loving daughter for causes identified solely to himself,” mentioned Detective Inspector (DI) Laura Semple from the Met Police’s Specialist Crime Command.
“Whereas I’m conscious that nothing can deliver Mehak Sharma again to them, I hope the sentencing will deliver some closure to her family members,” she mentioned.
Shortly after 1615 native time on October 29, 2023, Sahil Sharma dialled the emergency 999 quantity and informed the police operator that he had killed his spouse at their house on Ash Tree Means.
The courtroom heard how officers discovered Mehak unresponsive on the handle.
Mehak had suffered catastrophic knife accidents to her neck and regardless of the efforts of medics on the scene, she was pronounced useless round 20 minutes later.
A autopsy examination was carried out on October 31, 2023, and located the reason for Mehak’s demise was a stab wound to the neck.
“Mehak was killed in her own residence, a spot the place she ought to have felt the most secure, and by the one who ought to have liked and guarded her. My ideas stay together with her household and family members,” added DI Semple.
A sufferer affect assertion was learn out to the courtroom from Mehak’s mom, who mentioned she feels damaged after her daughter’s brutal killing.
“The one factor I would like greater than something is to have my daughter again however that is inconceivable. No quantity of prayers, cash or help will deliver her again to me. I’m damaged. Sahil hasn’t simply murdered Mehak, I really feel he has killed me as effectively,” learn her assertion.
Sahil Sharma was arrested on the scene and brought to hospital as he was struggling a “minor head damage”.
The Met Police mentioned on the time of the homicide that the sufferer was an Indian nationwide who is assumed to have arrived within the UK “comparatively not too long ago”.