A man has been jailed for life after stabbing his teen wife to death at their home in south London.
Sahil Sharma, 24, stabbed Mehak Sharma, 19, in the neck in Croydon on October 29 last year before he calmly called police and said: ‘I have killed my wife’.
He falsely claimed on the call that Mehak had been cheating on him and was ‘responsible’ for her death.
Mehak died 20 minutes after paramedics arrived as a result of knife injuries to her neck, a postmortem examination later found.
The prosecution said Sharma mentally and physically abused Mehak throughout the course of their marriage.
Mehak also called 999 on three separate occasions despite Sharma threatening to kill her mum and siblings.
Her mum read out a victim impact statement in court which said: ‘The one thing I want more than anything is to have my daughter back but this is not possible.
‘No amount of prayers or money or support will bring her back to me. I am broken. Sahil hasn’t just murdered Mehak, I feel he has killed me as well.’
Detective Inspector Laura Semple said: ‘Mehak was killed in her own home, a place where she should have felt the safest, and by the person that should have loved and protected her.
‘My thoughts remain with her family and loved ones.
‘This is a tragic case that has completely devastated a family. In killing his wife, Sharma has robbed her family of a loving daughter for reasons known only to himself.
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‘While I am aware that nothing can bring Mehak Sharma back to them, I hope that the sentencing will bring some closure to her loved ones.’
Sharma was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 15 years at Kingston Crown Court on Friday.
He previously pleaded guilty to the murder at a previous court hearing held on February 8.
Passing sentence, Judge Sarah Plaschkes KC told Sharma: ‘You harassed Mehak from almost a year before her death. You subjected her to violence.
‘You accused her of cheating on you. But your suspicions were the product of your own imagination. No blame or shame should be attached to Mehak.’
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