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A 21-year-old British man who killed Indian student Anuj Bidve last year, has been jailed for life, with a minimum prison stay of 30 years. Kiaran Stapleton, who has admitted to the killing, approached Bidve, 23, and his friends in the street in Salford , Greater Manchester, and asked them what the time was on December 26 last year. One of them answered, and without warning, Stapleton put a gun to Bidve's head and killed him. According to the Telegraph, he also found amusement in police interviews over the murder and regularly grinned and laughed throughout his five-week murder trial. Manchester Crown Court judge said Stapleton had showed a 'most callous disregard' in laughing and smirking after he gunned down Bidve and also during the trial. "You have behaved in a way demonstrating that you are positively boastful about having killed Bidve," the paper quoted him, as saying. According to the paper, Stapleton nodded before he was led from the dock and then motioned with his hand towards his family to say 'Chin up'. Following the verdict, Bidve's father Subhash said Stapleton had 'openly laughed at the memory of our son'. He said he believed Stapleton should never be released from prison.

Indian student Bidve's murderer given life sentence by UK court