Kartakpandi latched the woman’s door from the outside and went back to his room. He had a bath and then went to work.
The incident came to light later that day when Tandel’s husband called her and she did not pick up the phone.
When he returned home for lunch at 12.30pm, he found his wife lying in a pool of blood with her throat slit. He took her to St George Hospital. However, she was declared dead before admission.