Attingal: Can a mother aid the brutal murder of her own daughter?
Two years after the cold-blooded crime, this question still haunts the women in Alancode, even as they expressed happiness over the sentence handed down to Nino Mathew and Anushanthi.
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Local residents, who deposed as witnesses in the case, too shared similar sentiments. They are happy that their efforts in court had not gone in vain.
Attingal double murder: 10 unanswered questions
Women in the immediate neighbourhood of Lijeesh, who escaped death by a whisker, still recall that four-year-old Swasthika was closer to her paternal grandmother Omana than her mother Anushanthi.
Nino Mathew had killed both the child and the elderly woman so that he could live with Anushanthi.