Indian man gets 16-year jail in UK for murder bid

PTI

London, April 27

A 25-year-old Indian man charged with attempted murder of a female student, also an Indian, in east London two years ago has been sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment by a court here. Sriram Ambarla, who was arrested at the scene of stabbing the female inside a Hyderabadi restaurant in east London, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey court on Thursday.

According to a court report in ‘MyLondon’, they both came to study at the University of East London in 2022 where Ambarla pursued her and resorted to physical threats before the attack in March that year.

The unnamed victim, a student from Kerala in her 20s, who was working part-time as a waitress at the restaurant in east London has since completed her Master’s course.

Judge Philip Katz described Ambarla as “jealous, possessive and determined” when he attacked his former girlfriend, whom he had met in Hyderabad and split up with in 2019.

“That she did not die is no thanks to you. She was within a hair’s breadth of dying at your hands in a public and terrifying way,” Judge Katz told him while handing down the sentence, which will run concurrently with a 12-month sentence for knife possession. Ambarla is also banned from making contact with his victim again through an indefinite restraining order.

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