Father jailed for stabbing sons to death
Father who stabbed his two sons to death before trying to set their bodies on fire jailed for at least 21 years
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Tuesday, 20, Jan 2009 12:50
A father who stabbed his two sons to death before trying to set their bodies on fire has been jailed for at least 21 years.
Ashok Kalyanjee, 46, earlier admitted killing Paul Ross, six, and Jay, two, and was today sentenced at the high court in Paisley.
The judge handed down a life sentence and ordered him to spend at least 21 years in jail.
In May last year, Kalyanjee collected the boys from their mother in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, claiming he was taking them to play football.
However, he instead drove them to a secluded beauty spot and cut their throats, before pouring petrol over his sons and himself and trying to set fire to the silver Mercedes.
Police officers discovered the boys' bodies and Kalyanjee unconscious in the vehicle in the Campsie Fells near Lennoxtown.
In handing down the sentence today judge Lord Brailsford said: "It is clear from what I've been told that this crime was premeditated, planned, organised.
"The victims were defenceless and no doubt they trusted you and assumed you would take care of them as a father should… This is as grave a crime as can be imagined."