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AFTER HIS ARREST FOR SLASHING HIS WIFE’S THROAT, A FAMILY
DOCTOR WROTE TO HER BROTHER: ‘I SHALL ARRANGE PLASTIC SURGERY FOR
HER.
‘ AN OLD BAILEY JURY HEARD ON THURSDAY.
DR JOHN BAKSH, 53, WAS SAID TO HAVE REFERRED TO THE INCIDENT
AS ‘A STORM IN A TEA CUP.
‘ AND HOPED THAT HIS WIFE WOULD HELP HIM
WALK TO FREEDOM.
DR DHRUVA KUMAR TOLD THE COURT THAT THE LETTER FROM BAKSH
ARRIVED AS HIS SISTER, PRETTY 43 YEAR MADHU BAKSH, WAS IN A
HOSPITAL’S INTENSIVE CARE UNIT.
IN IT BAKSH ADMITTED HE HAD INJECTED HER WITH A DRUG AND
THEN SLASHED HER THROAT.
‘BUT GOD SAVED HER LIFE IN THIS MIRACLE,’ THE LETTER WENT
N.
‘I AM DELIGHTED.
‘
REFERRING TO THE ATTACK, BAKSH WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE SAID:
‘ONE EVIL LED TO ANOTHER ‘ AND DESCRIBED HIMSELF AS A PERSON WITH A
SPLIT PERSONALITY.
‘SOMETIMES ONE SIDE PREVAILS AND SOMETIMES ANOTHER’ THE LETTER
WENT ON.
‘THE BAD SIDE TOOK OVER VERY MUCH ALTHOUGH I CAN SAY I
DID NOT WANT TO KILL HER.
‘
THE COURT HEARD HE HAD WRITTEN A SECOND LETTER IN WHICH HE
SAID: ‘GOD HAVE MERCY ON ME.
THE DEVIL IS BENT ON RUINING OUR
FAMILY HOME AND PRACTICE.
‘
THE LETTER CONTINUED: ‘I KNOWN THAT I DID NOT MEAN ANY HARM
TO HER.
I AM FULLY REPENTANT.
I KNOW SHE LOVES ME VERY MUCH.
‘
BAKSH CALLED HIS WIFE ‘AN ANGEL’ IN THE LETTER AND SAID:’IT
WAS A FAMILY AFFAIR WHICH WENT WRONG.
‘
HE WAS SURE HIS WIFE WOULD HELP HIM GET HIS FREEDOM AND THE
LETTER ADDED: ‘I AM CONFIDENT WE WILL BE A UNITED FAMILY ONCE AGAIN.
I CAN NOW SEE LIGHT AT THE END OF A VERY LONG TUNNEL.
‘
DR JOHN TAYLOR, A POLICE FORENSIC SCIENTIST, TOLD THE COURT
THAT HE HAD EXAMINED THE EXHUMED REMAINS OF BAKSH’S FIRST WIFE, RUBY.
HIS TESTS REVEALED THAT SHE HAD RECEIVED A ‘FATAL MORPHINE OVERDOSE.
‘
TRIAL CONTINUES
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