Former Soldier 'Battered Wife To Death After She Laughed At His Failure For Not Having An Erection'

Rosemary Gill, who was killed by her husband Nirman

 A former soldier has told a jury he killed his cheating wife after she laughed at his impotence and called him a "sad, sad, pathetic man".

Nirmal Gill, 49, battered his wife Rosemary, 48, to death with a dumbbell in the bedroom of their home after a private investigator he had hired discovered that she was having an affair Uk Newspaper Independent Reported 

The pair had agreed to separate just hours before her death, but he had asked to have sex with her one last time.

He had gone to join his wife in the master bedroom of their home in St Werburghs, Bristol, at around 3am on July 20 last year but he was unable to get an erection, he told the city’s Crown Court.

"I remember Rosemary laughing at me and calling me a sad, sad, pathetic man”, he said.

 "I just remember hitting Rosemary with the bar."

He added: "She was laughing at my impotence.”

The father-of-two, who admits manslaughter but denies murder, insists he has limited memory of the killing.

Her naked and bloodied body was discovered by the couple's daughter, Jasmine, 19, later that day.

Gill was arrested by police at 9pm that evening, when he returned to the family's three-bedroomed home.

In interview, he told police he had put Vaseline on her body as he intended to have sex with her post mortem.
"It sounds sad but that was my intention," he told officers.

During cross-examination, he described striking Mrs Gill up to 12 times with the dumbbell as a "split second" decision he regretted.

"You make a split second decision when you are going to avoid something or hit it," he said.
"You don't think about it, you do it."

He had taken an overdose of paracetamol and prescription drugs and drunk two cans of lager and up to half a bottle of

Polish vodka earlier in the evening.

Gill, who hit her over the head with a dumbbell up to 12 times, says he was suicidal after agreeing to separate from Mrs

Gill just hours earlier.

"She said 'I have been your mother not your lover for 24 years'," he said.

"I was absolutely devastated, it was like my whole world was crumbling in front of my eyes."

He had discovered that Mrs Gill was having an affair with her ex-husband, Andrew Cooper, after hiring a team of private investigators to carry out surveillance.

The private investigators fitted a tracking device to her Audi car, which sent text updates of her location to Gill, and he had followed her days earlier and seen her kissing and embracing Mr Cooper.

"I just collapsed on to my knees and started crying," he said.

"I couldn't believe what she was doing. I was heartbroken."
Mrs Gill denied they were having an affair, but the couple later agreed to split.

The jury heard Gill wrote a letter to Mrs Gill's elderly mother and sister blaming Mr Cooper for her death.

The letter, sent from prison, stated: "Rosemary was seeing another man at the time. This was Rose's secret.

"The man in question is Andrew Cooper, Rose's first husband.

"I have lost the love of my life and it is all Andrew's fault."
The court was told Gill signed up for dating websites Illicit Encounters and Sex Direct and had received a caution after paying a prostitute for oral sex during his marriage.