Indian charged for murder of student

The West Midlands Police told PTI that the woman has been identified as Samrajyo Jyothirmayee Vempala from Vijaywada, who was in the UK on a study visa, attending a postgraduate course in health sciences at the University of Wolverhampton.

A post mortem examination has been conducted, which established that she died as a result of head injuries.

The police have not released any further details about the Tuesday’s incident, but said forensic tests were carried out at the premises and nearby houses.

Jyotirmayee’s neighbours expressed shock and disbelief over the incident.

Lal Miah, whose mother lives next door to the house where Jyotirmayee stayed, told newspersons, “From what I’ve heard, it sounds like it was a fight between two persons. The ambulance came and took one person away but we heard that one was still in there and it was a woman who had died”, he said.

This is the second incident of murder involving an Indian in the Birmingham area in the last three years.

In November 2005, Anurag Johri, a Lucknow-born Indian PhD student at the University of Central England, Birmingham, battered his wife, Deepti Anurag, 29, to death because she had left him. He is currently serving a life term in a British jail.

The sensational murder of Deepti was dubbed a ‘Google murder’ because Johri, 34, did an internet search on how to kill with a baseball bat before killing her.