Student claims he was framed for meat cleaver murder

A STUDENT accused of murdering his classmate's wife with a meat cleaver has told a jury he was framed for the crime.

Roshan Dantis, 30, denies killing 21-year-old Khusbu Shah at the home she shared with her husband, Nagendra, in Glasgow in a 120,000 ransom plot.

The mother of one's dismembered body was found in a holdall in some bushes behind her home in Coventry Drive, Denniston, on 1 June.

The High Court in Glasgow has heard forensic evidence linking Dantis to a bag containing Mrs Shah's remains.

Dantis, who was on a business and technology course at Strathclyde University, said yesterday that he had unknowingly "cleaned up" the crime scene and removed the victim's body, after being threatened by a man who appeared at his home with a gun.

Closing speeches in the trial were to take place today.