Midland banker killed wife and burned her body because he was gay and 'could not live a lie', court told

 Police found the body of Varkha Rani on Victory Lane, Walsall

By Ron Warrilow

A Midland banker viciously killed his new wife and burned her body in a garden incinerator because he was gay and could “not live a lie,” a court was told.
Jasvir Ginday was “driven by the reality of being married” when he murdered “lonely and vulnerable” Varkha Rani last September, jurors heard.

Wolverhampton Crown court was told he then tightly squeezed the 24-year-olds body into the newly-bought incinerator and torched it using petrol.
Debbie Gould, prosecuting, said Ginday, aged 29, was gay and had no interest in female partners.
“The Crown says his marriage was motivated by a desire to please his parents and conceal his homosexuality from them,” she said.
“Over the years the defendant made contact with gay chat lines to discuss his sexuality, he developed a network of gay male friends and he attended gay clubs in the Birmingham area.”
Miss Gould said the couple were engaged within hours after meeting in the Punjab in India but Ginday’s friends were aware of his sexual orientation.
She asked: “What were his options?
“Divorce would have to be explained and would reflect badly on him and his family, particularly if the reason was his sexual orientation.

“He could live the lie of marriage to a woman he had no sexual attraction for and reject  living as a gay man for the duration of his married life or he had to find another way out.”
The court heard police found Mrs Rani’s body in the incinerator at the couple’s home in victory   lane, Walsall
Ginday, who denies murder but has admitted manslaughter, told a neighbour he was burning rubbish, jurors were told.
The court heard Ginday at first denied all knowledge of his wife’s death but later accepted he had killed her unlawfully.