Free Parents Who Kill--Shocking True Stories of the World's Most Evil Parents by Carol Anne Davis Page B

that she was pregnant for the third time and unsure if she could cope with three young children. She was also worried about the family’s finances.
MURDER-SUICIDE
    In July 2005, Navjeet’s medication was changed without explanation to a different type of anti-depressant. On 31 August, she phoned her husband and told him that she was leaving him, taking the children and ‘going far, far away.’ Distraught, Manjit left his work and drove around the neighbourhood, searching for her. Meanwhile, the 27-year-old, who was by now four months pregnant, took a bus to Southall train station. She pushed 23-month Aman in his pram whilst five-year-old Simran held her hand.
    Navjeet was seen at the station mid-morning, hanging about on a section of the platform which was out of bounds to the public. A concerned employee asked what she was doing and she replied calmly that she was showing her children the fast trains.
    The young mother left the area at his insistence but returnedat 1pm when he’d gone. Holding both children, she jumped in front of the Heathrow Express train, which was going at 100mph. The horrified driver saw her but could not brake in time. Navjeet and her daughter died instantly, but Aman, though badly injured, was still alive.
    Manjit had seen his wife re-enter the station at lunchtime and had driven around trying to find a parking space for his BMW. He finally parked and raced onto the platform, only to find his wife and daughter dead and his baby son being tended to on the tracks. But Aman had been badly crushed and, two hours later, he died of his injuries.
    The devastated man later issued a statement to his wife and children, saying ‘I love you with all my heart and I know that one day we will be together forever.’
FURTHER TRAGEDY
    Unfortunately, Navjeet’s mother, Satwant Kaur Sodhi, never got over her daughter’s death and returned repeatedly to Southall station, the scene of the murder-suicide. She’d stand there for hours and cry until concerned friends found her and brought her home. On the morning of Tuesday 21 February 2006, the 56-year-old went to the station and threw herself under the Bristol to Paddington train which was travelling at 95mph. She died instantly. It was later reported that her son-in-law (Navjeet’s husband) was suffering from depression and had returned to India.
INTOLERABLE ISOLATION
    Many new mothers are isolated, especially if they have live on sink estates, have little money and poor access to inexpensive transport. But a walk to a nearby community centre or branch library can provide a much-needed break from home. Mother-and-toddler groups provide an opportunity for interactionwith other women and The Samaritans operate a 24-hour service that anyone who is lonely or distressed can call. Unfortunately, women who speak no English cannot avail themselves of such services and their isolation, whenever their bilingual husband is at work, is total. This level of loneliness often leads to mental illness, with occasionally fatal results…
MUSAMAT MUMTAHANA
    Musamat was born in Bangladesh in 1984. Nothing is known of her early life, but by 2006 she was living in Birmingham with her husband, Shuhal Miah, and their sons, two-year-old Raheem and one-year-old Nahim. Both boys had been born in Birmingham. The young mother was very isolated as she didn’t speak English and, on the rare occasions when she went out, she wore a burkha which made it difficult for the neighbours to get to know her: though she was only 22, they thought that she was pushing 30. Her life revolved around caring for the children in the family’s recently-renovated three-storey semi-detached.
    Shuhal, her 26-year-old husband, spoke excellent English, was sociable and well liked in the neighbourhood. A businessman, he often worked long hours. But Musamat began to crack under the strain of being alone and, in mid-September 2006, a neighbour heard screaming coming from her Handsworth residence. The neighbour