The petite 23-year-old accountancy student married her husband Nagendra in Nepal in 2003 and had lived in Britain for four years. She studied at Glasgow Caledonian University. They had some money from a flat they had sold in London.
She divided much of her time between caring for their four-year-old son Nikhil and working on the details of the business venture they hoped to pursue.
Mrs Shah had only met her killer once before, but she knew that he and her husband were close friends – a fact which makes the murder all the harder to understand.
Yesterday, her husband and parents were too distraught to talk about what had happened or their relief on hearing her murderer had been convicted.
Her husband wrote instead of his memories of his “beautiful”, “cheerful” wife who he misses greatly.
“Khusbu was my beautiful wife, Nikhil’s perfect mum and Mr and Mrs Jaiswal’s lovely daughter,” he said in a statement.
“She was always cheerful, caring, friendly and helpful. She managed to fit everything in so well with her life: work, study and family. We miss everything about her and we always will. She was brutally killed by a ruthless, evil man.
“My four-year-old son, Nikhil, has had to cremate his 23-year-old mum. I wish no other child to have to go through the same pain.”
The statement continued: “Today, Roshan Dantis has been found guilty of murdering my beautiful wife in the most terrible and terrifying way.
“He deserves a life sentence for his heinous crime and our family is satisfied that he has been brought to justice.
“We would like to thank the police, the prosecution and everyone involved in bringing Roshan Dantis to justice today for his truly evil and wicked action. In particular we would like to thank Sergeant Kelly and Sergeant Maider for the support they have given to our family in their role as family liaison officers.
“Finally to my wife: Khusbu, I love you and miss you very much.”
On June 1 last year Mrs Shah was due to meet her husband for lunch to arrange paperwork for a visit from her Nepalese grandmother. She never turned up.
Instead Mr Shah received a text message from her mobile phone claiming she had been abducted.
He was then forced to endure days of waiting – expecting her to be found alive before discovering that she had been murdered by his university classmate.
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