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Indian gets life term for killing fellow student

LONDON: Indian student Nagaraja Kumar Nalluri, who wrote ‘I love you’ in his own blood after killing a fellow student from Andhra Pradesh in Birmingham, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

In the sensational murder on May 6 that hit headlines, 23-year-old Samrajya Jyothirmai Vempala, who hailed from Vijaywada, died after suffering severe head injuries.

The same day, Nalluri was found seriously injured in the same private accommodation where Jyothirmai was living in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham.

Both were students at the Wolverhampton University. Jyothirmai was enrolled on a postgraduate degree in Health Sciences while Nalluri, who had trained with her in India, was also enrolled at the same university.

Nalluri was sentenced to life imprisonment this week by a jury in the Birmingham Crown Court.

He must serve a minimum of 25 years before being considered for parole. Nalluri, 25, who denied killing Jyothirmai, had claimed that a masked intruder forced his way into the house and attacked the two of them, according to reports from Birmingham.

Delivering the verdict, Judge Melbourne Inman said: “On the evidence before the jury you struck her at least 12 times to the head. Undoubtedly many more blows were struck against her.”

Nalluri, 25, took a photo of the victim when she was either dead or dying and sexually assaulted her. The judge said the sexual assault had increased the depravity of the killing. — PTI

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