The biryani murder plot confession tape: Chilling moment the lover of death row British wife reveals how he slit the throat of her sleeping husband after she laced his curry with sedatives

This is the chilling moment the lover of a cheating British woman sentenced to death in India for her husband’s murder admitted he conspired with her to commit the crime.

Gurpreet Singh reveals in chilling detail how he hit his childhood friend Sukhjit Singh on the head with a hammer and then slit his throat as he slept at his mother’s house in India in September 2016.

Mr Singh’s wife, Ramandeep Kaur Mann, 38, from Derby, was found guilty of his murder earlier this month and given the death penalty after her trial heard she gave him a biryani laced with sedatives and then allowed Gurpreet, 32, into the family home to kill. it.

In his recorded video confession to Indian police, obtained by MailOnline, Gurpreet reveals the plan to kill Mr Singh, 34, was orchestrated by Mann because she became ‘sick and tired’ of his alleged drug use and faced domestic violence .

He reveals: ‘I got a call from her and she said, ‘He’s hitting me, he’s not stopping. I’m going to kill him, or he’s going to kill me. Please help me. Bring me some things to kill him. I need a knife and a hammer.’ Then I bought them.’

Devout Sikh Sukhjit Singh (left), 34, a father-of-two from Derby was found in bed with his throat slit

British mother Ramandeep Kaur Mann (pictured) sentenced to death in India for killing her husband so she could inherit £2 million from his life insurance policy

Gurpreet Singh confesses to his role in a gruesome murder

Recalling the night’s events, he revealed: ‘She smothered him with a pillow. I hit him on the head with a hammer. She said, “He’s still not dead.” So she gave me the knife I had bought with me.

‘She gave me the knife and I slit his throat. He still had trouble breathing even after being choked and hit on the head. I became very afraid of what might happen, having done something so serious.”

Gurpreet was arrested hours after the murder as he tried to board a flight to Dubai, where he lived.

In his confession to Indian police, he claims that he and Mann became close after she began confiding in him about Mr Singh’s alleged drug abuse and domestic violence she suffered.

He said: ‘She confided in me and we became close because of that. She said talk to him, I said yes but he is your husband, if I could I would save you. We became close, we became friends, we talked a lot.”

He added: “She was fed up with it all. When he did drugs, he hit her. She told him you should be ashamed of yourself. He lied the whole time and said he didn’t do drugs. That’s why they didn’t get along.’

Mann’s trial revealed that her affair with Gurpreet began when she went on a family holiday to Dubai to visit him in December 2015.

They then agreed to go to India in September to visit Mr Singh’s mother, and the group also spent time traveling around the country.

Gurpreet said that after a few days he was at his family’s home in Punjab, northern India, when he received a call from Mann instructing him to come to the village of Bastantapur, where Mr Singh’s mother lived, which was 12 hour away by train.

He said he arrived outside the house around 11:30 pm on the night of the murder and Mann opened the front gate to let him in. Mr Singh slept with his two sons in an upstairs bedroom.

Gurpreet added, “She opened the front door for me to come in. I went upstairs. The two dogs were in a cage covered with a cloth so they couldn’t see anything. Then she took me upstairs.

“She went in (the bedroom) to check. She said, “We’re going to have to do this.” I thought: if we have a problem, I’m going to get into trouble. She said, “We’re going to have to kill him.”

“I went in and she said, ‘Hit him with a hammer.’ He was having a hard time.’

Mann is seen with Gurpreet after the couple was arrested by police following Singh’s murder

The murder was witnessed by their eldest son Arjun, who was nine years old at the time. Pictured: Sukhjit Singh and Ramandeep Kaur Mann

Her trial at a court in Shahjahanpur, northern India, heard that Mann’s affair with her husband’s childhood friend Gurpreet began during a family holiday to Dubai in November 2015.

Singh with his wife in Britain. The couple was on holiday in India when Singh was killed

Ramandeep Kaur Mann, 38, from Derby, was found guilty of murdering her husband Sukhjeet Singh, 34, (pictured together) while they were on holiday at his mother’s home in India in 2016

Sukhjit Singh with his wife and their son. The couple married in 2005 and lived in Derby before his death

Sukhjit Singh with his wife Ramandep Kaur Mann. She is now pleading for help as she sits in prison awaiting execution

Mann is housed in the Shahjahanpur district jail (pictured) in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

Mann with her children and police at the scene of her husband’s murder. He lies before them

Mann with her husband, their son. He started wearing a turban and growing a beard about two years before his murder

Gurpreet told police that he and Mr Singh went to the same school where they became good friends, but then lost contact for years after they both left India.

Mr Singh moved to Britain in 2002, while Gurpreet went to Dubai, where he worked in construction and freight.

He said that after committing the murder, he put the guns in a bag and threw them away. He then boarded a train to New Delhi so he could catch his flight, calling Man a few times along the way.

She was arrested by police shortly after the murder.

Gurpreet was sentenced to life imprisonment and is housed in the Shahjahanpur District Jail in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, where Mann is also housed in the women’s section of the prison.

Breaking her silence from behind bars exclusively to MailOnline, she protested her innocence and begged for clemency, insisting she had been ‘set up’ by her husband’s family.

Fighting back tears, Mann told MailOnline from the dilapidated 18th century prison built during the British Raj that she is in a ‘living hell’.

She shouted: ‘It’s terrible, it’s like being in hell, both this prison and the bigger situation I’m in.

It’s the worst thing that’s happened to me. I feel so alone, I haven’t made any friends here and I just keep myself to myself.

‘The food and conditions are really terrible. I don’t talk to anyone and I don’t want to do anything. I just sit and cry all day.”

Lawyers for Mann have appealed the death sentence, but sources say Gurpreet will not challenge his conviction.