Mangaluru Couple Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for 2019 Murder of Shreemathi Shetty

The First Additional District and Sessions Court of Mangaluru, led by Judge Mallikarjun Swamy H S, has sentenced Jonas Samson (40) and his wife Victoria Mathias (47) to life imprisonment for the 2019 murder of Shreemathi Shetty. A third accomplice, Raju, received a lighter sentence of six and a half months in prison for assisting in the crime.

Shreemathi Shetty, who ran a chit fund business in Attavar, visited Jonas’s house in Suterpete to demand repayment of a debt. Jonas and Victoria killed her, stole her gold jewelry, and gruesomely dismembered her body into 29 pieces. Jonas later disposed of the remains at various locations in the city.

The prosecution, led by government prosecutor Judith Olga Margaret Crasta, secured the life sentences for the couple.

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