Jitendra Lad couldn’t cope with the pressures of life.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: A British Indian man in the U.K. stabbed his wife and two daughters to death after researching how to cut someone’s throat, lived with their bodies for a weekend, and then hanged himself.
Jitendra Lad, 49, killed his wife Daksha, 44, and daughters Trisha, 19, and Nisha, 16, at their home in Clayton, Bradford, last October, according to the BBC. He then hung himself in their living room.
All four bodies were found by a neighbor on the evening of 27 October, in what coroner Martin Fleming described as a “scene of unimaginable horror.” Lad stabbed his victims with a scuba knife while they slept in their beds during the early hours of October 25.
During a hearing in Bradford Coroner’s Court it was noted that Lad had no medical history of mental illness and relatives and friends said they appeared to be a normal, loving family, according to the Daily Mail.
But Detective Sergeant Duncan Jackson told the hearing in Bradford how Lad had accessed the internet on his phone in the weeks before his death to research depression and, just days before the tragedy, he searched “how to cut someone’s throat and executions.”
The hearing also heard that Lad had been stressed at work as an IT manager, and was concerned he had been over promoted. He also allegedly told a woman on holiday two months prior to his death about how unhappy he was with his life and imminently turning 50-years-old.
“We will never know for sure what was going through Jitendra’s mind at that time,” Fleming said while delivering the verdict of suicide upon the patriarchal Lad and the unlawful killing on the other members of his family. “I can think of no reason at all for what’s happened. They were just a normal and happy family.”