A gay banker who strangled his wife and burnt her body in an incinerator has been sentenced to life in prison.
Jasir Ginday, 29, of Walsall, stared down in the dock as he was ordered to serve at least 21 years behind bars.
He was unanimously convicted of murdering Varkha Rani after jurors heard he throttled his wife just a month after she arrived in the UK from India.
Ginday was arrested last September after setting fire to Varkha's body in a patio incinerator in his back garden and telling neighbours he was disposing of "general rubbish".
The Royal Bank of Scotland employee, who was planning to take up a job with the Financial Services Ombudsman, married his university-educated wife in a lavish ceremony attended by 700 guests in India in March last year.
The 24-year-old victim came to Britain to live with Ginday five months late and is thought to have been killed with a metal vacuum cleaner pipe on September 12 last year.
Judge John Warner told Ginday, who has no previous convictions, his behaviour towards Varkha before the killing had been a "fundamental deception" of a vulnerable woman living thousands of miles away from her home country.
Judge Warner said: "It was a very cruel situation in which you put her. You have told lie after lie about a number of matters such that it is impossible to rely on anything you say.
"I am satisfied that you intended to kill - you are a devious, controlling man and a meticulous planner in a number of aspects of your life."
