Indian jailed for life for murder of woman he met at a brothel in UK

TOI correspondent from London: Indian national Deepak Sandhu, who came to the UK on a student visa, was on Friday sent to jail for life with a minimum of 28 years for murdering a Chinese woman he met at a brothel.It took a jury at the Old Bailey just two hours to convict Sandhu (24) of murdering Chinese national Xiaoqing Ke (39), who he met at a brothel in Southampton where he was a customer and she was working. He was also convicted of perverting the course of justice. Sandhu denied the charges. He sat in the dock with a Punjabi interpreter.The court heard that Sandhu had a brief relationship with Xiaoqing, a single mother-of-two, during which he fabricated an identity of being a model and actor. The pair communicated using the Google Translate app.Sandhu had entered the UK in Sep 2024.