Virginia man convicted of murder says he did not kill wife before dismembering her body

Virginia man convicted of murder says he did not kill wife before dismembering her body

In brief

Naresh Bhatt, 28, said he dismembered wife’s body after she took her own life, a claim prosecutors called ‘ridiculous’A Virginia man who claimed he dismembered his wife’s body after she took her own life is facing a life sentence after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder.Prosecutors in Manassas called it “ridiculous” that Naresh Bhatt insisted that he woke to find Mamta Kafle Bhatt, 28, dead from suicide in…

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