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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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Nearly 10,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region since a ground attack launched by Russian forces on May 10, its governor said Saturday.

The assault may only be the first wave of a wider offensive, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told AFP.

Over a week after its launch, “a total of 9,907 people have been evacuated,” governor Oleg Synegubov said.

They were fleeing Russian soldiers who managed to advance between five to 10 kilometres (three to six miles) along the northeastern border before being stopped by Ukrainian forces.

Synegubov said Ukraine’s armed forces had repelled two attempts to break through defences overnight.

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The situation was “under control” with “defenders in certain areas conducting assault… and combing operations.”

Moscow has been attacking several settlements including Vovchansk, just five kilometres from the border.

“In the area of the city of Vovchansk, Ukrainian troops are reinforcing their defence,” Synegubov said.

There are about 100 people left in the city where “heavy fighting” is taking place, he added later.

Russian forces have taken 278 square kilometres (107 square miles) between May 9 and 15, their biggest gains since the end of 2022, AFP calculated using data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Russia’s offensive “could consist in several waves. There was the first wave” in the Kharkiv region, Zelensky told AFP journalists.

Zelensky played down Russia’s gains in the offensive but added: “We have to be sober and understand that they are going deeper into our territory. Not vice versa. And that’s still their advantage.”

Speaking about the offensive during a visit to China on Friday, President Vladimir Putin said it was a response to Ukraine shelling Russian border regions.

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Russia could increase Ukraine attacks, says Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia could increase its attacks in Ukraine’s north east following its recent gains near the city of Kharkiv.

Russian troops have been trying to push forward as Ukraine’s outgunned forces attempt to shore up a weakened front line.

Mr Zelensky admitted that there were issues with military staffing and morale, saying a number of existing brigades were empty.

He also told the AFP news agency the country’s air fleet was lacking and renewed calls for allies to send more air defence and fighter jets.

“Today we have about 25% of what we need to defend Ukraine,” Mr Zelensky said of Ukraine’s air capabilities.

“So that Russia does not have air superiority, our fleet should have 120 to 130 modern aircraft.”

The US recently approved a new $61bn (£48bn) aid package for Ukraine, which includes military support.

Russian forces recently began a summer offensive, grabbing a number of villages on Ukraine’s north-eastern frontier near Kharkiv – the country’s second largest city.

Kharkiv’s regional governor Oleg Synegubov said on Saturday that nearly 10,000 people have been forced to leave in just over a week.

“The situation is controlled by defenders of Ukraine,” he added.

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Polish Prime Minster Donald Tusk, meanwhile, has announced the country will spend over €2.3bn (£1.9bn) to fortify its eastern border against “potential enemies”.

The border includes Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Mr Zelensky also told AFP more soldiers were desperately needed at the frontlines.

“There are a serious number of brigades, existing brigades, which, a large number of them, are empty. We need to do this so that the guys have a normal rotation. Then their morale will be improved.”

A new mobilisation law aimed at addressing this came into force on Saturday.

Under the new rules, the age that people can be conscripted into the war has been lowered from 27 to 25 in an effort to boost recruit numbers.

The flood of volunteers Ukraine saw following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 has now dried up. Most of those who wanted to fight are either dead, injured or still stuck at the front waiting to be relieved by new recruits.

In February, Mr Zelensky announced that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed during Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Typically, Ukrainian officials do not make casualty figures public, and other estimates are much higher.

BBC Russian, in a joint project with the Mediazona website, has established the deaths of more than 50,000 Russian soldiers. But it estimates the total number to be greater than that.

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The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdullahi Shawesh, on Thursday, May 16, lambasted the Western World for clamping down on student protesters who were expressing solidarity and sympathy with his country.

Shawesh said the clampdown is nothing but hypocrisy and double standards.

He stressed that the arrest and clampdown on protesters negates the Western world’s stand as promoters of freedom of speech.

He said: “When college students express their solidarity and sympathy with the Palestinians, it is labelled as hate speech and anti-Semitism. These students are beaten and harshly treated. Threatened with expulsion from universities, severe sanctions in the future, imprisonment, and facing trial.

“This is the exact meaning of hypocrisy and double standards.”

Shawesh who gave a review of the 223-day battle between the Israeli forces and Hamas, said no fewer than 45,091 Palestinians have been killed, including 15,103 children and 9,961 women.

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He also said the battle has consumed 142 journalists and 492 medical staff.

The envoy said no fewer than 10,000 persons have been declared missing.

He added: “78,404 wounded and injured, with 72% of the victims being children and women. 17,000 children live without one or both of their parents.”

Beside the human casualties, Shawesh also listed a number of destructions recorded, which include “243 mosques destroyed and 321 partially damaged. 3 Churches targeted and destroyed, 86,000 housing units completely destroyed and 294,000 partially damaged. 103 schools and universities destroyed. 206 archaeological and heritage sites destroyed, 75,000 tons of explosives materials dropped on Gaza.

“33 hospitals along with 54 health centres were taken out of service. A total of 160 health institutions and 126 ambulances were targeted by the Israeli occupation.”

He said the state of infrastructure devastation has forced 11,000 wounded people to travel for treatment to undergo operations.

He also said that no fewer than “10,000 cancer patients face death due to the lack of medical treatment. 1,095,000 are infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement. 20,000 cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement. Tens of thousands of pregnant women are at risk due to a lack of access to healthcare. There have been 310 cases of health personnel being arrested.”

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