Kozhikode, Kerala: A court on Saturday rejected the bail application of serial killer Jolly Thomas and her two accomplices, and remanded them to judicial custody until November 2.
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The bail plea was heard at Thamarassery Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, near Kozhikode.
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The three were arrested on October 5 in connection with the case of the murder of Jolly’s first husband, Roy Thomas.
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According to police, Jolly has also confessed to killing five other members of her family between 2002-16.
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Following her confession, the police have registered five cases of murder against the three accused in connection with the other deaths.
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According to police sources, they are likely to arrest the third accused in the second case — the murder of Sily, the first wife of Jolly’s current husband, Shaju.
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The first to die an unnatural death was Jolly’s mother-in-law Annamma, a retired teacher in 2002. She was followed by Jolly’s father-in-law, Tom Thomas, in 2008. In 2011, their son and Jolly’s husband, Roy Thomas, died. It was followed by the death of Roy’s maternal uncle, Mathew, in 2014. The two-year-old child of Sily (Shaju’s first wife) died the following year, while Sily passed away in 2016.
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