Prince William County jurors began deliberating Tuesday in a murder case against a Manassas husband who admitted to dismembering his wife in 2024 after he claimed she committed suicide.
Defendant Naresh Bhatt, 39, took the stand last week to say that seeing his wife Mamta Kafle’s lifeless body triggered his PTSD, hence he began cutting apart her body in a state of shock.
Kafle’s body has never been found and her manner of death not determined, but prosecutors argued the story is a ruse to cover up the husband’s homicidal intentions.
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“The defendant murdered Mamta Kafle. The defendant dismembered Mamta Kafle, and the defendant got rid of her like garbage,” Senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Sarah Sami said in court Tuesday.
“Now the defendant wants you to believe his story, his made-up crazy story,” she added. “From the moment that Mamta went missing, all he did was lie. He lied to every single person. And it’s hard to keep up with lies. They start slipping up.”
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