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British mum who poisoned her husband in £2m plot speaks from death row

A British mum who poisoned her husband and slit his throat with her lover in a £2million life insurance plot said she’s “in hell” caged on death row.

Ramandeep Kaur Mann was convicted of brutally murdering her husband of 11 years, Sukhjit Singh, in his sleep as their nine-year-old son watched in horror.

Mann and her lover, Gurpreet Singh, began their sordid affair a year before they carried out the barbaric crime while staying with family in Basantapur, Uttar Pradesh, in 2016.

The horrors that unfolded were a complete shock to the people who knew them from their Derby home.

The 38-year-old and her accomplice, who was Sukhjit’s childhood best friend, laced their victim’s Biryani with sedatives, smothered him with a pillow, bludgeoned him with a hammer and finally slit his throat.

And, the evil murder was tragically witnessed by the couple’s eldest son, Arjun, who was just nine at the time.

Arjun’s mum had put sedatives in his curry to stop him from walking in on their gruesome plan.

However, they hadn’t taken affect before his dad was killed in front of his eyes.

The traumatised little boy later told police: “My dad was great but my mum was bad and I don’t want to see her face ever because she killed my dad in front of my eyes.

“She kept a pillow on my dad’s face and asked Gurpreet to slit his throat.”

The sick pair are said to have brutally taken Sukhjit’s life for a £2million life insurance policy as well as property in both the UK and India.

Mann was quickly arrested and sentenced to death by hanging, while Singh was given life in prison and a £260,000 fine.

The killer mum now waits caged in one of India’s most overcrowded prisons with 55 other female prisoners and 1,300 male inmates – official capacity for the lock up is just 511.

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She is the only foreign prisoner and the only one on death row in Shahjahanpur District Jail.

Speaking to the MailOnline, Mann claimed she is barely surviving in a “living hell”.

“It’s horrendous, it’s like being in hell- both this prison and the bigger situation that I find myself in,” she said.

“It’s the worst thing that has happened to me. I feel so alone, I haven’t made any friends in here and I just keep myself to myself.”

The death row inmate also complained about the “awful” food and how she spends her days crying.

She claimed her conviction was a “miscarriage of justice” and still insists from behind bars that her husband’s family framed her.

The twister killer alleged they carried out the unthinkable murder after he revealed plans to sell 21 acres of land.

“There’s nobody helping me, I’m all alone here. I can’t begin to tell you how horrendous this whole thing is,” she added.

“I’m not good at all. Please, somebody help me.”

Mann begged the British High Commission to fly out and see her to review the case.

The mum-of-two also said she has not heard or seen from either child since her arrest.

Jail Superintendent Mijaji Lal told MailOnline: “We are doing our best to look after her because we understand that things must be very difficult for Mann.

“We’re encouraging her to take up a sport like badminton or run English classes for the other inmates.”

Mann, who grew up in Slough, Berkshire met Sukhjit in 2002 when she was just 17 and he was 20.

They married in 2005 and after running a pizza restaurant in Carshalton, Surrey, moved to Derby to raise their two boys.

A pal of the couple previously told MailOnline Sukhjit “worshipped the ground” his wife walked on.

They added: “[He] waited on her hand and foot. I got the impression she always got what she wanted.”

It wasn’t until 2015 that Mann and Gurpreet sparked their affair when the couple took their sons on holiday to Dubai to visit him.

One year later, Sukhjit, who gifted his wife with “nice clothes and jewellery”, was discovered dead in his own mother’s home.

British mum who poisoned her husband in £2m plot speaks from death row

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Trump mulls closure of US embassies in Africa

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Trump mulls closure of US embassies in Africa

The Trump administration is reportedly considering shutting down nearly 30 embassies and consulates worldwide—including several in Africa—as part of a broader plan to streamline America’s diplomatic presence abroad.

This is according to an internal document from the US State Department, obtained by CNN.

Among the proposed closures are American embassies in Lesotho, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan.

A consulate in South Africa is also listed for potential shutdown.

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These developments come amid a sweeping attempt by the administration to shrink the size of the US federal government, with influence from the Elon Musk-backed Department of Government Efficiency.

In total, the document recommends closing 10 embassies and 17 consulates around the globe, including missions in Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Africa, however, features prominently on the list—raising concerns about the potential diplomatic and developmental fallout for the continent.

While it’s unclear whether US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has approved the recommendations, the document indicates that American diplomatic operations in affected countries would be consolidated into neighboring nations’ missions.

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Titanic: Found ladies watch for auction at £50,000

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Titanic: Found ladies watch for auction at £50,000

A lady’s pocket watch discovered among the belongings of one of the passengers who drowned on the Titanic’s doomed maiden voyage could fetch up to 50,000 euros (66,000 dollars) at auction.

Hans Christensen Givard, a 27-year-old Danish second-class passenger, was one of 1,500 people killed when the ship collided with an iceberg in 1912.

Givard was heading to the United States with two other companions who died in the catastrophe.

The watch was discovered when Givard’s body was recovered from the North Atlantic, and he was buried in Halifax, Canada.

The pockets contained a savings book, keys, some cash in a wallet, a silver watch, a compass, and a passport.

The gold ladies’ pocket watch, which showed signs of saltwater corrosion, was also retrieved.

All of his goods were restored to his brother in Denmark, and his relatives are now selling the watch.

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The tragic incident of Givard led curator Jesper Hjermind and his niece, journalist and U.S. resident Mette Hjermind McCall, to publish the book Titanic, De Danske Fortaellinger (Titanic, The Danish Stories), which mentions the pocket watch.

Claes Goran Wetterholm, the world’s greatest specialist on the Scandinavian aspect of the Titanic tale, also showed it in Copenhagen in 2012.

The watch will be auctioned on April 26 by Henry Aldridge and Son in Devizes, Wiltshire.

Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said, “This piece is documented in the official list of Hans’s effects compiled by the authorities in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the weeks after the Titanic disaster and has remained in his family ever since.

“It was one of the centrepieces of the display of Titanic memorabilia in the Tivoli in Copenhagen in 2012, which illustrates its importance.

“The watch’s movement is frozen in time at the moment the cold North Atlantic waters consumed not only its owner but the most famous ocean liner of all time, Titanic, on April 15, 1912,” he added.

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US judge stops Trump move to revoke 500,000 immigrants’ legal status

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US judge stops Trump move to revoke 500,000 immigrants’ legal status

A federal judge on Monday blocked US President Donald Trump’s administration from quickly revoking the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti.

The ruling by District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston is the latest order against Trump’s rapid push to carry out mass deportations, particularly targeting Latin Americans.

In March, the administration said it was moving to revoke the legal status of some 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who came to the United States under a “parole” program initially launched by former president Joe Biden in October 2022.

“The court grants emergency relief staying the Termination of Parole Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans,” Talwani wrote in her order.

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The parole program allowed entry to the United States for two years for up to 30,000 migrants per month from the four countries, which have grim human rights records.

In her order, Talwani said the Trump administration had acted on a flawed interpretation of immigration law, with expedited removal applicable to non-citizens entering the United States illegally, but not those authorized to be in the country, such as through the parole program.

Under Trump’s revocation, the immigrants would have lost their legal protection effective April 24, just 30 days after the Department of Homeland Security published its order in the Federal Register.

Trump has vowed to deport “millions” of undocumented migrants in his second term, after running an election campaign that focused on illegal immigration.

Among other measures, he has invoked rare wartime legislation to fly hundreds of alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador, which is imprisoning the migrants.

 

US judge stops Trump move to revoke 500,000 immigrants’ legal status

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