Indian gets lifer for killing girl in UK

Indian student Roshan Dantis, described as “one of the most dangerous murderers Scotland has known”, has been jailed for life for killing a Nepali student and trying to extort £120,000 from her husband.

Dantis, 30, killed his close friend, Mr Nagendra Shah’s wife, Khushbu, 23, on June 1, 2009.

The Shah family arrived in Glasgow in 2008. Dantis met Nagendra Shah in 2008 when both of them joined a Master’s course at the Strathclyde University in Glasgow. Dantis had arrived from India with his wife, Ms Astrid, after completing an engineering course there.

It emerged during the trial that Dantis, who earned low wages as a football steward, had become jealous of Mr Shah’s plans to buy a restaurant in Shetland and other purchases such as a second-hand car and large screen TV.

Dantis killed Khusbu by cutting off her head and limbs with a meat cleaver. He then put the severed body parts in holdalls and dumped them.

Dantis must serve at least 24 years in jail before he could be considered for deportation. The detective superintendent, Mr Michael Orr, of the Strathclyde Police on Monday described Dantis as “one of the most dangerous murderers Scotland has known”.