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20/01/2009
Killer Father Jailed
A father who stabbed his two young sons to death has been sentenced to at least 21 years in jail.
Ashok Kalyanjee, also tried to set the children's bodies alight by setting his car on fire in a lay-by in East Dunbartonshire, the High Court in Paisley heard.
Judge Lord Brailsford told Kalyanjee it was "as grave a crime as could be imagined".
Paul Ross, six, and his two-year-old brother Jay were picked up by their father, who then drove them to a secluded spot and then cut their throats.
The children, who had been with their mother, before he collected them, had been told they were being taken to the park to play football.
Police found the blood-soaked bodies of the two boys in the car with their father slumped unconscious in the front seat of the vehicle which was parked in a lay-by in the Campsie fells near Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire.
(JM/BMcC)
Ashok Kalyanjee, also tried to set the children's bodies alight by setting his car on fire in a lay-by in East Dunbartonshire, the High Court in Paisley heard.
Judge Lord Brailsford told Kalyanjee it was "as grave a crime as could be imagined".
Paul Ross, six, and his two-year-old brother Jay were picked up by their father, who then drove them to a secluded spot and then cut their throats.
The children, who had been with their mother, before he collected them, had been told they were being taken to the park to play football.
Police found the blood-soaked bodies of the two boys in the car with their father slumped unconscious in the front seat of the vehicle which was parked in a lay-by in the Campsie fells near Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire.
(JM/BMcC)
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