‘She should be suffering in a cell, NOT painting’: Mother’s outrage after her daughter-in-law is allowed to flog watercolours from Indian Death Row after poisoning her son’s biriyani and slitting his throat

A cheating British woman who murdered her husband by poisoning his food and slitting his throat is receiving rave reviews for her art shows on India’s death row, MailOnline can reveal.

Videos and photos show convicted Derby murderer Ramandeep Kaur Mann being praised for the colorful artwork she has created behind bars – as well as the Christmas cards she has created for senior civil servants.

Charity workers visiting the institute to distribute holiday gifts are then filmed envisioning some of Mann’s elaborate paintings, closely inspecting and admiring them as she looks on demurely and smiles.

Mann, 39, was sentenced to death last October after being found guilty of conspiring with her lover to kill her husband Sukhjit Singh, 34, while they were on holiday in India.

She laced his biryani dinner with sedatives and slit his throat while he slept in the marriage during a trip to the countryside with their two children in 2016.

But his family have branded the Christmas celebration of her prison artwork as ‘disgusting’ and ‘offensive’.

Bans Kaur, Sukhjit’s mother, told MailOnline: ‘She deserves no applause and has no right to celebrate Christmas or any other occasion while I continue to suffer.

‘She is a cunning and evil woman, and I don’t believe for a moment that she has changed. This is all done because of her appeal against the death sentence and is an attempt to curry favor with the prison authorities. It’s absolutely disgusting.’

She added: “I will speak to prison officials about this. For the sins she has committed, she should suffer in a cell, without being given the opportunity to paint and live a comfortable life.”

While she awaits the hangman’s noose, Mann is housed in the Shahjahanpur District Jail in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where she shares a dormitory with 55 other female inmates.

Officials told MailOnline that in addition to painting, Mann has also taken part in yoga classes and given English lessons to some female prisoners and their children.

Jail inspector Mijaji Lal said, “When she came to jail, she was a different person. She stayed alone, was depressed and had problems with the prison culture and food. Her hair started to fall out. We arranged special food according to her needs. We spent many days counseling, and she is a changed person now.”

He added: “She doesn’t demand anything special. Just the brush and colors for creating paintings. Her health has also improved and she no longer falls out.’

MailOnline was shown a Christmas card Mann had made from Mr Lal, in which she writes: ‘Dear Chief Inspector Sir. Merry christmas. Happy New Year!

‘I sincerely wish you much success and, above all, good health. Thank you for everything you do for me and the entire prison. We’re really lucky to have you. I wish you a fantastic year ahead.”

Mr Lal also revealed Mann’s daily diet behind bars and that she is no longer fed special food as she was when she first arrived.

He said: ‘She eats comfortable prison food. We offer porridge, jaggery, boiled chickpeas and tea for breakfast, while dal, vegetables, chapati and rice are served for lunch and dinner.”

A judge at her trial at the Shahjahanpur District Court ruled that Mann slit Sukhjit’s throat after he fell into a deep sleep – aided by her lover Gurpreet Singh so they could benefit from a £2 million life insurance policy she took out in her husband’s name had closed and inherited his property.

Mann has appealed her death sentence, but there is no date yet for the verdict to be heard.

But Ms Kaur said: ‘We have also submitted papers to the High Court on why any appeal from her should be rejected and she should still be given the death penalty.

“I will fight to the end to get justice for my son because what this woman has done is unforgivable. I don’t care how good she is at art or what a model prisoner she has become because it doesn’t mean anything.”

A painting by Mann shows a woman being grabbed by a man with his hand around her mouth. Next to the couple stands a man with his ears covered and another with his hands over his eyes.

The text accompanying the painting reads: ‘Spectators are equal criminals. Be powerful, not stupid. Get up.’

Ironically, Mann’s brutal murder of Mr Singh was witnessed by their eldest son Arjun, 18, who was nine years old at the time.

He gave evidence against her, which was instrumental in securing her conviction.

Arjun chillingly described to MailOnline how he saw his mother suffocate his father with a pillow before her lover hit him on the head with a hammer and then slit his throat.

Arjun said, “Not many children see their mother killing their father and then testify about it. How do you try to move on with your life after something like this?

I had to be very brave and I am proud of what I did because I got justice for my father.

“My brother and I don’t consider this woman my mother anymore, she is evil.

‘We don’t want anything to do with her. As far as I’m concerned, she’s no longer a mother to us, ever since she killed our father.’

Commenting on her death sentence, which in India is usually carried out by hanging, he said: “I would like to be there when it happens. It doesn’t fill me with dread, in fact it would give me great satisfaction and relief and I look forward to that day. I would like my whole family to be there with me.

‘I would like to see with my own eyes that justice has been done for my father. She deserves to be hanged for doing something so bad.”

Arjun woke up on the night of the murder while sleeping in an adjacent bed next to his father because he did not eat the sedative-laced biryani that his younger brother Aaron, then 5 years old, was eating.

Recalling the events of the night, Arjun said, “I was sleeping soundly and then I heard a banging sound. I looked up from under the sheet and my mother was on top of my father, smothering him with a pillow.

“Then Gurpreet, who I called ‘Uncle Mithu’, hit him on the head with a hammer. I remember they had a conversation at the time and said, ‘He’s still alive. We have to finish him.”

My mother then took the knife and slit his throat.”

Police arrived within an hour, but it wasn’t until later that day that Arjun whispered to his grandmother what he saw when Mann was confronted by officers in a separate part of the house.

She was arrested at the family home in the village of Basantapur, northern India, where they stayed while visiting Mr Singh’s mother.