Wednesday, September 16, 2009

'Narco-tape' shows Indian priests, nun admitting murder

Indian police have released a CD recording that is reported to contain admissions made under the effects of a truth serum by two priests and a nun thatthey killed another nun, Sister Abhaya.

The recordings contained in an 80-minute CD also showed that the two priests, Fr Thomas M Kottoor (58) and Fr Jose Puthrukayil (56), and nun Sr Seffy (43) had a relationship between them, The Pioneer reports.

Fr Kottoor, Fr Puthrukayil and Sr Seffy, the first, second and third accused respectively, were subjected to"narco analyses" at the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory in November, 2007.

The narco-tape clearly shows the accused, under the effect of the truth serum, giving legible statements about how they had killed Sr Abhaya and the circumstances in which they had done this, the paper says.

All the three accused are seen admitting that there was a relationship between them, and Sr Seffi clearly says that she was in love with both the priests while Fr Puthrukayil admits to having touched the nun's body.

The statements of both Fr Puthrukayil and Sr Seffi are corroborative as they say that they had struck Sr Abhaya on the back of her neck with (the back of) an axe. "It was an axe (kodali) or a hammer (chuttika)," says Fr Puthrukayil, dazed under the effect of the truth serum while Sr Seffi says it was indeed an axe.
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