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Indian IT professional killed family after online research
London, June 3
An India-born IT professional
in Britain stabbed his wife and two daughters to death after researching
how to cut someone's throat -- then lived with their bodies for a
weekend before hanging himself, an inquest has heard.
Jitendra
Lad, 49, his wife Dukshaben Lad, 44, and their daughters Trisha, 19,
and Nisha, 16, were discovered at their home in Clayton, Bradford, last
October days after celebrating Diwali, the Daily Mail reported on
Wednesday.
Lad had researched on depression and how to cut
someone's throat on the internet in the days leading up to the tragedy,
an inquest into the deaths was told.
Lad was found hanged and the
three other members of the "model" family had all been stabbed in their
beds with a knife, in what a coroner described as a "scene of
unimaginable horror".
The Bradford Coroner's Court heard that
Dukshaben, also known as Daksha, and her two daughters were probably
killed in the early hours of Saturday, October 25.
But Lad was
seen by a number of people later the same weekend and probably killed
himself on Monday afternoon, two days later, the court heard.
The
hearing was told how Lad had no medical history of mental illness and
relatives and friends said they appeared to be a normal, loving family.
The hearing also heard that Lad had been stressed at work as an IT manager, and was concerned he had been over-promoted.
The
inquest heard how the bodies were discovered at the house when Daksha's
father became concerned when no one was answering their phones and went
round with a neighbour.