AS HE CUDDLED HIS BEAUTIFUL MISTRESS IN BED, AN AM

AS HE CUDDLED HIS BEAUTIFUL MISTRESS IN BED, AN AMOROUS

DOCTOR WHISPERED TO HER: ‘I KILLED MY WIFE RUBY FOR YOU.

‘

BUT THE CONFESSION WAS ALL LIES, DR JOHN BAKSH, 53, TOLD AN

OLD BAILEY JURY ON FRIDAY.

‘IT WAS NOT TRUE.

I HAD NOT DONE IT,’ HE SAID.

BAKSH, WHO LATER MARRIED HIS MTRESS AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY

CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTING TO MURDER HER, WAS ASKED: ‘WHY ON EARTH DID

YOU TELL HER THAT YOU HAD KILLED YOUR FIRST WIFE ?’

‘IT WAS FOOLISH OF ME,’ HE TOLD THE HUSHED COURTROOM.

‘BUT

I WANTED TO GET FAVOUR FROM HER.

I DID IT BECAUSE I THOUGHT SHE

WOULD REALISE THAT I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR HER.

‘

‘EVEN KILL YOUR WIFE ?’ ASKED HIS DEFENCE BARRISTER MR ROBIN

SIMPSON QC.

‘THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT’ THE G.

P REPLIED.

BAKSH SAID HE CONFESSED TO BEING A MURDERER AS HE LAY BESIDE

HIS MISTRESS, MADHU KUMAR, NOW 43, DURING A ROMANTIC TRIP TO PARIS

IN MAY 1983.

BUT ON FRIDAY HE EMPHATICALLY DENIED THAT HE HAD IN FACT

MURDERED RUBY IN JANUARY 1983 BY DRUGGING HER AND INJECTING HER

WITH A FATAL DOSE OF MORPHINE.

HE ALSO PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO ATTEMPTING IN JANUARY 1986 TO

MURDER MADHU WHO BY THEN HAD BECOME HIS SECOND WIFE.

THE PROSECUTION CLAIM BAKSH KILLED RUBY WHILE ON HOLIDAY IN

SPAIN.

IN A FALTERING VOICE, BAKSH TOLD THE COURT THAT RUBY

COMMITTED SUICIDE AFTER DISCOVERING THAT HE WAS HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH

MADHU.

BAKSH DESCRIBED WAKING UP AT THE SPANISH VILLA ON NEW YEARS

DAY TO FIND HIS FIRST WIFE DEAD IN BED.

‘I NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A NOTE ON THE BEDSIDE TABLE.

I

LOOKED STRAIGHT AT HER.

SHE WAS DEAD,’ HE SAID.

BAKSH SAID THE NOTE SAID RUBY REVEALED SHE DID NOT WANT TO

LIVE ANY MORE AND SHE WAS FINISHING HER LIFE.

MR SIMPSON ASKED: ‘WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN YOU FOUND HER

DEAD?’ — ‘I WAS SHOCKED.

‘

‘DID YOU, YOURSELF, FIRST OF ALL DRUG HER AND SEND HER TO

SLEEP ?’ — ‘NO.

‘

‘DID YOU THEN KILL HER BY INJECTING HER WITH MORPHINE?’ —

‘NO.

‘

DR BAKSH SAID HE WAS ANXIOUS TO KEEP HIS WIFE’S SUICIDE A

SECRET.

‘DID YOU WANT ANYBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT SHE HAD

TAKEN HER OWN LIFE?’ ASKED MR SIMPSON.

‘NO’ REPLIED BAKSH ‘I WAS VERY

UPSET.

‘

A SPANISH DOCTOR EXAMINED THE BODY AND CERTIFIED THAT RUBY

HAD DIED OF A HEART ATTACK.

SHE WAS BURIED IN SPAIN.

IT WAS FIVE MONTHS LATER THAT BAKSH, FOR THE FIRST TIME,

TOLD ANYONE THAT THIS WAS NOT TRUE.

HE SAID THAT AS MADHU WENT TO GET INTO BED WITH HIM IN PARIS

HE BEGAN TO CRY.

‘I SUDDENLY BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT RUBY,’ HE SAID.

ASKED WHAT MADHU’S REACTION HAD BEEN TO HIS CONFESSION HE

SAID:’SHE WAS SAD.

‘

THE PROSECUTION ALLEGE THAT IN JANUARY 1986 BAKSH , OF

GLOUCESTER HOUSE, BICKLEY ROAD, BICKLEY, KENT, DRUGGED MADHU,

INJECTED HER WITH MORPHINE, DRAGGED HER TO WASTELAND AND SLIT HER

THROAT.

IT WAS SAID THAT BAKSH INTENDED TO KILL HER SO HE COULD

CLAIM #215,000 INSURANCE MONEY.

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BAKSH TOLD THE JURY HIS LIFE WITH MADHU WAS TEMPESTUOUS.

‘WE OFTEN NEARLY CAME TO BLOWS,’ HE SAID.

A FEW HOURS BEFORE MADHU WAS FOUND NEARLY DEAD WITH HER

THROAT SLIT, THEY HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN ‘A TERRIBLE FIGHT.

‘ IN THE

BEDROOM.

THE ROW WAS OVER THE CHILDREN.

‘SHE WAS SHOUTING AND SCREAMING AND SAID I AM GOING TO CUT

YOUR THROAT,’ SAID BAKSH, WHO ADDED THAT AS SHE MADE THE THREAT SHE

WAS HOLDING A KITCHEN KNIFE.

‘I GRABBED IT OUT OF HER HAND.

IT WAS THE FIRST TIME SHE

HAD BEHAVED LIKE THAT .

I PUT IT ON THE DRESSING TABLE AND THEN

TRIED TO CALM HER DOWN.

I PUT HER ON THE BED.

‘ HE CONTINUED.

HE RECALLED THAT MADHU WAS SUFFERING FROM A PAIN IN HER

CHEST.

HE DIAGNOSED IT AS ANGINA ‘BECAUSE SHE WAS SO FUNNY, ANGRY

AND UPSET.

‘

.

HE TOLD THE JURY SHE EVENTUALLY LET HIM GIVE HER AN

INJECTION OF MORPHINE TO RELIEVE THE PAIN.

BUT HE WAS ‘IN SUCH A STATE’ THAT HE ACCIDENTLY GAVE HER

THREE TIMES THE DOSE HE HAD INTENDED.

HE SAID HE WAS FEELING VERY CONFUSED AND BEWILDERED.

HE

HAD TAKEN THREE AMPHETAMINE TABLETS HIMSELF AND HAD ALSO DRUNK TWO

LARGE VODKAS.

‘I THINK NOW THE DRINK AND THE DRUG WAS HAVING AN

ADVERSE EFFECT ON ME.

‘ HE WENT ON.

‘THE COMBINED EFFECT CAUSES A LOT OF CONFUSION AND AFFECTS

THE STATE OF YOUR MIND.

‘

WHEN MADHU WOKE UP SHE AGREED TO GO TO BIGGIN HILL WITH HIM.

THE IDEA WAS THAT THEY WOULD TALK OVER THEIR PROBLEMS WITH SOME

POLICEMEN WITH WHOM SHE WAS FRIENDLY

‘I WANTED TO TELL THEM HOW FUNNY SHE WAS BEHAVING,’ SAID

BAKSH WHO SPEAKS WITH A STRONG ASIAN ACCENT.

HE WRAPPED A KITCHEN KNIFE IN A TOWEL AND PUT IT IN HIS

OVERCOAT POCKET.

MR SIMPSON ASKED HIM WHY HE SHOULD DO SUCH A THING AND HE

REPLIED: ‘I HAD A NOTION THAT IF I TOLD THESE POLICE FRIENDS I WOULD

GET SOME ADVICE.

I WANTED TO SHOW THEM HOW TERRIBLY BADLY SHE HAD

BEHAVED.

BAKSH CONTINUES HIS EVIDENCE ON MONDAY

ENDS