Kid killer blamed his customer’s ‘alcohol fumes’

A shopkeeper slit the throats of his two children and blamed his customers for breathing ‘alcohol fumes’ on him. Nadarajah Nithiyakumar, 41, killed 18-month-old Pavinya and her three-year-old brother Nigish while his wife was in the shower during lockdown on 26 April. He told their mother, Nisanthini: ‘I’ve cut off the children’ when she walked into the bedroom to find him standing over them with a knife covered in blood. The delusion dad told doctors he had been ‘frustrated’ because…