Jury out in trial of beheaded student

Jan 9 2010

A MAN accused of killing a Nepalese student and cutting off her head and hands was branded a "monster" yesterday.

Dorothy Bain QC told a murder trial Roshan Dantis was capable of "pre-meditated violence and cruelty".

In her closing speech at the High Court in Glasgow, the prosecutor said young mum Khusbu Shah's body parts were "dumped like pieces of waste".

Indian-born Dantis, 30, denies murdering Khusbu, 23, with a cleaver at her home in Dennistoun, Glasgow, on June 1, 2009. Ms Bain said: "The evidence is overwhelming and compelling.

"Do justice to this important case and return verdicts of guilty on all the charges that Roshan Dantis faces.

"A four-year-old boy will go through his life without the love and devotion of his mother.

"She was decapitated and her hands were severed."

The prosecutor said Dantis had come across in court as intelligent and sophisticated. But she told the jury: "He is in truth a monster."

Defence QC Donald Findlay told the jury that the case against his client was circumstantial.

The jury is expected to retire to consider its verdict on Monday.

From: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/01/09/jury-out-in-trial-of-beheaded-student-86908-21953904/