London: Kiaran "Psycho" Stapleton, who shot dead Indian student Anuj Bidve last year claims he has the "best cell" in his wing and knows "loads of people" in prison. Stapleton was sentenced to life in prison after he shot 23-year-old Bidve, in the head in Salford, Manchester, on December 26, 2011.
And despite his "sickening" boast, the 21-year-old has begged a judge to reduce his sentence, which he is currently serving at York's tough Full Sutton Prison. In a letter shown to The Sun, he brags: "I sit in my cell waiting for Emmerdale and Coronation Street and eating chocolate."30 isent (sic) that long I don't think enyway I can do it standing on my head 'ha'," the report said.
The note was passed to The Sun by an outraged reader following its 'Say No To Soft Justice' campaign. "The source, who didn't wish to be named, said: 'It's clear Stapleton doesn't care that he's in prison. He thinks he has a cushy life in there. It's disgusting,'" the report said. Despite his boasts, Stapleton pleaded with Court of Appeal judges for a sentence reduction. It is believed he asked for his age and mental health problems to be taken into account.
The judges reserved judgment in the case to a date to be fixed. Bidve had arrived in the UK to study micro-electronics at Lancaster University and was visiting Manchester with a group of friends last Christmas....
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04:30 PM, Oct 15, 2012
London: Stars from the entertainment industry in Maharashtra on Sunday came together for an eight-hour extravaganza here to raise funds for the family of Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead in Manchester last year. The murdered student's parents attended the concert at the O2, earlier known as the Millennium Dome. Tickets for the concert were sold out, organisers said, and added that the Bidve family will be presented...
07:55 PM, Sep 16, 2012
London: Relieved and satisfied at the imprisonment of 'Psycho' Stapleton for the killing of their son Anuj Bidve, his grieving parents on Friday said their "whole world was lost" when he was killed on 26 December last. Bidve's Pune-based parents, Subhash and Yogini Bidve, sat through the five-week trial at the Manchester Crown Court every day, listening to evidence and watching the remorseless Stapleton at times mock the justice system....
07:36 PM, Jul 27, 2012
London: 'Psycho' Stapleton, the Briton who shot dead Indian student Anuj Bidve in an unprovoked attack in 2011 was on Friday given a life term after being held guilty of murder. The UK court has said that a parole for Kiaran Stapleton will be allowed only after 30 years. Anuj's father Subhash Bidve said that he is "satisfied with court's verdict". "No hard feeling with anyone, I congratulate the police....
04:53 PM, Jul 27, 2012
British national Kiaran Stapleton, who calls himself a psycho, was on Thursday found guilty of the murder of an Indian student Anuj Bidve on December 26, 2011. ...
08:56 AM, Jul 27, 2012
London: British national Kiaran Stapleton was on Thursday found guilty of the murder of an Indian student Anuj Bidve on December 26. Stapleton had admitted manslaughter but not murder, on grounds of diminished responsibility. His plea was not accepted by the court and the case proceeded to trial that heard evidence from psychologists who interviewed and assessed him. The trial of Kiaran Stapleton was attended by Bidve's parents, who have...
06:34 PM, Jul 26, 2012
London: A Briton standing trial for the killing of Indian student Anuj Bidve told a clinical psychologist that he selected the victim from the group of Indian students "only because he had the biggest head". Kiaran Stapleton, 21, has admitted manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility, but denies murder. Bidve's parents are attending the trial at the Manchester Crown Court. Dr Adrian West, who interviewed Stapleton, told the court today...
08:42 AM, Jul 17, 2012
London: A Briton who admitted shooting Indian student Anuj Bidve on Monday appeared to mock the ongoing trial by saying, "I love prison. I get to watch Coronation Street. Does this face look bothered?" Under cross-examination, Kiaran Stapleton was asked by prosecutor Brian Cummings why he decided to get the tattoo on his face two days after the killing. Bidve, 23, was murdered on December 26 last year in Salford....
10:02 PM, Jul 09, 2012
London: 'Psycho Stapleton', a Briton facing trial for the shooting of Indian student Anuj Bidve admitted the crime in a phone call he made to his brother from inside prison last week, a court heard on Tuesday. A recording of the 11-minute phone call made last Thursday by Kiaran Stapleton, 21, was played out in the Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday. He has pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the gounds...
09:40 PM, Jul 03, 2012
London: 'Psycho Stapleton', a Briton who admitted shooting Indian student Anuj Bidve on December 26 last year laughed and ran away after the incident, the Manchester Crown Court was told on the first day of his trial on Monday. Kiaran Stapleton, 21, had earlier pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but not guilty of murder of Bidve, 23. His plea was not accepted by the Crown...
01:38 AM, Jun 26, 2012
London: The trial of 'Psycho Stapleton', a Briton accused of the murder of an Indian student Anuj Bidve on December 26, 2011 in Salford begins in the Manchester Crown Court on Monday. The trial of Kiaran Stapleton, 21, is expected to last 12 days. On June 1, he had pleaded "guilty to the manslaughter of Anuj Bidve on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but not guilty to murder". However, official...
02:27 PM, Jun 25, 2012
London: The main accused in the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve in Salford in Britain on December 26, 2011 pleaded guilty on Friday in a Manchester court. Kiaran Stapleton admitted to shooting 23-year-old Bidve in an unprovoked attack on the Boxing Day. Stapleton, 21, admitted to manslaughter at the Manchester Crown Court. He is expected to go on trial for murder. Lancaster University student Bidve was walking with friends...
03:57 PM, Jun 01, 2012
London: A youth, who described himself as "Psycho Stapleton", accused of murdering Indian student Anuj Bidve in December last year appeared in a British court today. Kiaran Stapleton, 20, from Ordsall, Salford, appeared at the plea and case management hearing at Manchester Crown Court via videolink. Twenty three-year-old Bidve, a Lancaster University student, was staying with friends in the Manchester area when he was shot in the head at close...
07:21 PM, Mar 20, 2012
London: Anuj Bidve's alma mater, Lancaster University is setting up a scholarship in memory of the Indian student whose killing in an unprovoked attack in the UK evoked widespread sympathy and outrage. "The scholarship is a fitting and lasting way of remembering Anuj, who was an outstanding student," said Lancaster University's vice-chancellor Professor Mark E Smith. Bidve, 23, was studying engineering at Lancaster when he was killed in Salford on...
07:08 PM, Feb 04, 2012
London: Tributes were paid to the memory of Indian student Anuj Bidve at Lancaster University, where he was enrolled for a post-graduate qualification before being killed in an unprovoked attack in Salford on December 26. Over 200 students and staff gathered at the memorial service at the Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre on Saturday. The university is discussing with Anuj's family what sort of tribute would be a fitting way to...
09:22 AM, Jan 22, 2012
London: A high-level British delegation will visit India in the next couple of months to assure parents of Indian students planning to study in the UK that the killing of Anuj Bidve in Manchester is a one-off incident. Professor Eric Thomas, President, Universities UK who will head the delegation told members of the Indian Journalists' Association today: "UK remains one of the best locations for higher education in the world...
07:54 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: An Indian origin man and his English wife have been murdered in Birmingham, weeks after an Indian student was killed in an apparent hate crime in Manchester. The local police named the victim as Avatar Singh Kolar, 62, and Carole Kolar, 58. The police added that their son is a police officer, who found the bodies. The case comes at a sensitive time when less than a month...
06:22 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Indian Student Anuj Bidve's murder in Manchester has brought the focus back on racially motivated crimes in the UK. ...
10:00 AM, Jan 10, 2012
London: The Greater Manchester Police looking for a 20-year-old Indian-origin man, who has been missing since January 2, on Monday said that a taxi driver may hold vital information about him. Concern is growing for Gurdeep Hayer who has gone missing from a place in Manchester, which is less than 16 kilometres from where Anuj Bidve was killed on December 26. Based in West Bromwich, Gurdeep was last seen in...
10:25 AM, Jan 09, 2012
London: Concern is growing for a 20-year-old Indian-origin man who has gone missing since the early hours of January 2 from a place in Manchester, which is less than 16 kilometres from where Anuj Bidve was killed on December 26. Gurdeep Hayer, who is based in West Bormwich, travelled to Manchester on December 31 to celebrate New Year's Eve with friends. He stayed with friends in the Fallowfield area of...
05:43 PM, Jan 08, 2012
