Kerala Mass Murderer Killed Lover As “She Would Be Alone Without Him”: Cops

Sharing new details about the five shocking murders by a 23-year-old in Kerala, police have said that the man had run up a debt of Rs 65 lakh from 14 creditors and had initially planned to die by suicide along with his mother and brother. Officials also said that Afan had planned to kill himself after carrying out the murders and killed his girlfriend because he thought she would not be able to live without him 

Afan killed his grandmother, paternal uncle and aunt, 13-year-old brother and girlfriend in three houses in and around Venjaramoodu, a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram, on Monday. He also tried to kill his mother, but she survived. After committing the murders, the 23-year-old walked into the Venjaramoodu police station and surrendered. 

Afan’s father lived in Saudi Arabia and officials said the family was being harassed by creditors over the debt. They said Afan was upset that his grandmother and paternal uncle and aunt were not helping the family monetarily and when he realised that they would not be able to pay off the money they owed, he tried to convince his mother and 13-year-old brother to die by suicide with him. 

His mother did not agree and Afan then decided that he would kill her and his brother before dying by suicide himself. After assaulting his mother, he left the house thinking she was dead and went to his grandmother’s home, where he killed her and stole a gold necklace.