'You shoot me' - the moment coward who killed wife and children in Kettering begged police before arrest
Police have released body-cam footage showing him wielding a knife before being Tasered
This is the moment coward Saju Chelavalel begged police to shoot him after he had killed his wife and children.
Body-worn camera footage released by officers shows him sitting in the corner of his Petherton Court flat wielding a knife on December 15 last year.
Police warned him they would Taser him unless he put it down – only for the 52-year-old killer to say “you shoot me”.
The bodies of Anju Asok, 35, Jeeva Saju, six, and Janvi Saju, four, were then found. All three were strangled.
Today (Monday) 52-year-old Chelavalel was sentenced to life in prison at Northampton Crown Court and will spend at least 40 years behind bars.
The one-minute clip released by police shows an officer shattering a glass door to gain entry to the flat. They were responding to initial reports that a woman and two children had suffered serious injuries.
After they enter through the door officers make themselves known before walking through to the dining room, where Chelavalel was on a chair in the corner holding a knife.
One officer tells him: "Put it down now.”
Chelavalel can be seen sitting next to a keyboard, with a flask and a bottle of Jack Daniels on the table. He ignores more calls to put the weapon down.
An officer then tells him: "Put the knife down or you’ll end up getting Tasered.”
Another officer shouts: "Put it down now.”
Chelavalel does not put the weapon down and can be heard in the footage to say: "You shoot me.”
He then ignores repeated warnings before the officer discharges their Taser and he screams in shock before falling to the floor, next to paperwork, a pair of scissors and a child’s chair.
Chelavalel was then taken into custody, where he has remained ever since.