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K P
JAYANANDAN
Classification: Serial
killer
Characteristics: Robberies
Number of victims: 7
Date of murders:
2003 - 2006
Date of arrest:
November 23, 2006
Date of birth: 1968
Victims profile:
Panjikkaran Jose, 45 / Nabeeza, 51, and her daughter-in-law Fauziya,
23 / Kalappurakkal Sahadevan, 64, and his wife
Nirmala, 58 / Devaki, 51 /Subhashakan (guard)
Ripper Jayanandan, is a serial killer from
Trichur who is accused of seven murders committed during a span of 35
robberies, in and around Trichur Ernakulam border areas.
For the seven murders committed by Jayanandan
including the double murder at Perinjanam in October 2004, where
Jayanandan had assassinated the inmates of the house, Kalapurackkal
Sahadevan and his wife Nirmala, to steal 11.25 sovereigns of gold,
Thrissur principal sessions judge sentenced him to
death by hanging in June 2008. He was sent to Pujapura central Jail
where he was awaiting his execution until June 2013 when he made a
daring escape. He was captured on 9th September near Trichur.
Background
Jayanandan was born in Mala district of Thrissur.
Major thefts and murders
Jayanandan's first major offence was burgling the
house of 45-year-old Jose in Mala police station limits in September
2003. During the robbery, he struck Jose, who was sleeping, with a
crowbar and killed him and decamped with Rs 17,000 and a video
cassette player.
His second burglary was in March 2004, in which he
forced his way into a house in Mala police station limits itself,
killing 51-year-old Nabeesa who woke up hearing the noise and came
out. Upon entering the house, he killed two more women, 23-year-old
Fousiya and 28-year-old Noorjahan, and two children.
In a third time in October 2004, Jayanandan killed
Nirmala 58, and grievous injuries to Sahadevan, 64, in their house at
Puthenvelikara in Puthenvelikara police station limits and then
decamped with gold ornaments weighing 11 sovereigns.
His next attack was at a house in Kodungallur
police station limits in Thrissur, in which he attacked Aravindaksha
Panicker and wife Omana Panicker and caused grievous injuries to both,
besides robbing 18-sovereign gold ornaments.
Jayanandan's next target was an outlet of Kerala
State Beverages Corporation at North Paravoor in August 2005. When the
security guard Subhashakan challenged him, Jayanandan struck him on
the head with an iron rod and killed him.
Escape
The cops suspect that the jailbreak occurred after
midnight. The fugitives had cut through the cylindrical ‘dead latch’
of the padlocked cell’s grilled door, possibly with a hacksaw blade,
and scaled the relatively low wall of the block. (The wall had been
fortified and topped with an electrified barbed wire fence in 2011 to
house terror suspect Thadiyantavide Nazeer.) They proceeded to the
prison’s infirmary and stole bed sheets and clothes left out to dry on
clotheslines.
The convicts hastily assembled a crude ladder from
wooden poles to scale the wall. Once on top of the wall, they used a
rope fashioned out of the knotted bed sheets and clothes to abseil
down its frightening height, investigators said.
The escapees had made up their cots inside the cell
with vessels and pillows to make it appear as if they were sleeping.
The prison’s extensive surveillance camera network was down at the
time of the escape, purportedly due to a power outage.
Investigation
The escapade was a huge embarrassment for kerala
police as Jayanandan was a seasoned criminal and with multiple
successful escape attempts made in past. The high security controls
and technologies were breached by Jayanandan with very rudimentary
measures.
Capture
Jayanandan was arrested by the Kerala police in
Nellayi, a few kilometres away from his native village in Thrissur on
September 9, 2013. The police detained Jayanandan in the afternoon,
while he was waiting to get his bicycle repaired at Nellayi junction.
Wikipedia.org
‘Ripper’ Jayanandan arrested in Thrissur
TheHindu.com
September 10, 2013
‘Ripper’ Jayanandan, 45, an accused in eight murder
cases who escaped from the Central Prison at Poojappura in
Thiruvananthapuram on June 11, was arrested from near the National
Highway at Nandhikkara, near here, on Monday.
Jayanandan jumped prison along with his cellmate,
“Oopa” Prakash.
They escaped by breaking the lock of the
maximum-security condemned cell in which they were lodged.
Jayanandan, accused in 14 burglary cases also, was
brought to the Central Prison, Viyyur, on June 21, 2010, following his
capture after escaping from the Central Prison, Kannur, in 2009. He
had made a futile attempt to escape from the Viyyur prison in 2007.
“Oopa” Prakash, 40, was arrested on June 19.
Prakash, who was serving time for burglary, escaped from the jail when
he had just a few months to complete his sentence for simple theft.
Prakash told the police that after escaping from
the jail, both of them had camped almost two days in the wilderness
near the Veli railway station in Thiruvananthapuram.
The police had conducted intensive searches for
Jayanandan in many places in Thrissur district following information
received from the public.
The District Court, Ernakulam, in 2011, sentenced
Jayanandan to rigorous imprisonment for life without parole for the
murder of Elikutty of Vadekkakara.
He was accused of the double murder of Ramakrishnan
and his wife, Devaki, in their house at Puthenvelikkara in Thrissur on
October 2, 2006.
Deputy Jailor T.R. Rajeev, Chief Warder P.V.
Abraham, the head warders Abdul Rasheed, Rajeev Kumar and Prathap
Chandran and three temporary workers were suspended in connection with
the escape of the two prisoners.
Jayanandan’s trail gets hot again
By G. Anand - TheHindu.com
July 24, 2013
The trail of ‘Ripper’ Jayanandan, which went cold
after the death row prisoner broke out of the Central Prison here
along with a fellow convict on June 11, has got hot again, according
to the State police.
The serial offender, who police said often
exhibited psychopathic traits when drunk, is an accused in eight
murder cases, including a double homicide, all for gain, and 14
burglaries.
Investigators said they had evidence to believe
that Jayanandan was “hiding in plain sight” on the sparsely populated
islets that dot the maze of inland waterways and backwater lagoons
near Kodungalloor in Thrissur district.
Phone call to wife
The police said Jayanandan had called his wife from
a remotely located telephone booth in the coastal locality. They said
that Jayanandan had also attempted in vain to waylay a local resident
he suspected to have an extramarital relationship with a relative of
his in Mala.
When the attempt failed, Jayanandan vented his
anger by allegedly setting the man’s motorbike on fire.
The police said Jayanandan could be hiding in one
of the hundreds of brackish water shrimp farms (‘chemmeen kettu’) in
the area. Usually not more than two persons tend the farms and many
sleep in makeshift huts built on stilts to prevent theft of farm
produce.
Recently, local MLA T. N. Pratapan joined the
police in a midnight check of scores of such farms in the locality.
Later this week, the police, backed by 150 local people, are scheduled
to conduct a mass search in the area. Assistant Commissioner K.E.
Baiju is heading the search.
On June 19, the police had arrested ‘Oopa’ Prakash,
the 44-year-old man who escaped from prison along with Jayanandan when
he had just a few months to complete his sentence for simple theft.
For reasons which police said defied logic, Prakash
had chosen to make himself obvious in his village, drinking in toddy
shops, making contact with his friends, sleeping in the open and
buying liquor from crowded outlets.
The police let Prakash be at large for several
days, hoping in vain that Jayanandan would make contact with him,
before arresting him.
Prakash’s interrogation revealed that they had
camped almost two days in the wilderness near Veli railway station and
had survived on ripe cashew fruit and germinated nuts after their
break-out. Before they split ways, Jayanandan had briefly revealed his
plans to Prakash.
The “Ripper” proposed that they steal a boat from
the nearby Kadhinamkulam lagoon and live off the land abutting the
State’s chain of brackish water lagoons. Jayanandan had spent much of
his youth fishing the lagoons near his house in Mala.
Ripper Jayanandan, cellmate escape from jail
The Times of India
June 11, 2013
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Two prisoners, one awaiting
capital punishment and the other convicted for three years of rigorous
imprisonment, escaped from the high security Poojapura Central Prison
here on Monday. Dreaded criminal and serial murderer Jayanandan alias
Ripper Jayanandan and Prakash alias Ooppan Prakash, who is convicted
for theft, are the convicts, who escaped from the prison.
The authorities suspect that they might have got
out of the prison during Sunday night. The prison authorities became
aware of the incident when other prisoners noticed a long rope made of
dhoties tied together hanging from the high wall of the prison, near
the prison hospital. They had climbed the wall, which is over 25 foot
high using poles which supported a makeshift shaft to store utensils
of the prison hospital.
The prison authorities said that the convicts hood
winked the wardens by placing dummies made pillows to create an
impression that they were asleep inside their cells.
K P Jayanandan alias Jayan, 45, has been sentenced
to death in two cases - in 2007 for the murder of 51- year-old Baby
alias Devaki of Puthanvelikkara and in 2008 for the murder of
Kalapurackal Sahadevan, 64, and his wife Nirmala,58.
He tried to escape from jail while he was
imprisoned in Viyyur Central Prison. He was then moved to Kannur
prison from where he escaped in 2010. But he was later arrested from
Ooty. "The road outside the wall leads to the district jail, which is
behind the Central Prison, and hence it was less used, which is why
nobody saw them escaping," said Sam Thankayyan, Central Prison
superintendent.
He said that both the convicts were kept in the
same cell and probably they might have been planning the escape for
quite some time. They had also tampered with the lock of the cell, in
such a way that the wardens could not easily identify it.
The fugitives are suspected to have used hacksaw
blades to cut through the lock. "It is definitely the negligence on
the part of the officers on duty that they failed to find out the
escape plan," the superintendent said. Action was taken against eight
persons in this regard, he added.
Five officers, including deputy jailor Rajeev, who
was the lock up officer on duty on Sunday night and four head wardens,
were placed under suspension. Three guards, who were working under
daily wages scheme, were terminated from service.
A special team was constituted under deputy
commissioner of police A Srinivas to tarck down the escaped convicts.
Crime detachment assistant commissioner K E Baiju and control room
(traffic) circle inspector A Pramod Kumar are also part of the team.
"An alert has been sounded across the state and
their pictures have been flashed in TV channels," said Alexander
Jacob, director general of police (prisons).
Serial killer escapes with cellmate from Kerala
prison
Deccanherald.com
June 10, 2013
A serial killer facing the death sentence escaped
from the Poojappura Central Prison in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday
along with another convict, who was also his cellmate.
Jayanandan—often dubbed “Ripper” Jayanandan for the
methods he used to kill—and Prakash, who was incarcerated after being
convicted in vehicle theft cases, fled the prison during the early
hours of Monday. Authorities at the prison have launched a manhunt for
the two convicts.
Officials at the prison said the duo strung bamboo
sticks together with clothes of other prisoners and mounted the sticks
to scale the prison wall. The prison authorities came to know of the
incident after the bamboo sticks were spotted in the area that houses
the prison hospital. The wardens who inspected the cells soon found
that the prisoners had fled after breaking their cell’s lock.
Jayanandan had been booked in five murder cases,
including that of Baby, a housewife in Puthenvelikkara, in October
2006. He was sentenced to death over the killing.
Jayanandan, who hails from Mala in Thrissur
district, has repeatedly hit headlines in the state over the past
decade for the manner in which he killed people who came in the way of
his thefts.
His murders, which include two double-murders, also
caught the public eye due to the nature of their execution: He often
used iron rods and crowbars to bludgeon victims to death.
Jayanandan in 2010 escaped from the Kannur Central
Prison, only to be nabbed later in Ooty. He had also tried to escape
from the Viyyoor Prison.
Prakash, from Oachira in Kollam, was serving a
three-year term in the prison. Apart from the murder of Baby,
Jayanandan has been convicted for seven other murders, including that
of Panjikkaran Jose in Mala in 2003; Nabeeza and her daughter-in-law
Fauziya, also in Mala, in 2004; Kalappurakkal Sahadevan and his wife
Nirmala in October 2004; and Subhashakan, a guard at the Kerala State
Beverages Corporation in Paravoor, in August 2005.
All the murders involved theft of gold, money and
other valuables.
Ripper Jayanandan gets life sentence
The Times of India
December 24, 2011
KOCHI: Ripper Jayanandan, who is accused of seven
murders committed during 35 robberies, was sentenced to life
imprisonment for murdering a woman from Vadakkekkara, on Friday.
Additional sessions court of Ernakulam sentenced
39-year-old K P Jayanandan from Mala to undergo rigorous imprisonment
for life and fined him Rs 50,000 for murdering Elikutty, a resident of
Vadakkekkara.
During one of his heists, Jayanandan stealthily
entered the house of Elikutty on May 5, 2005. When Elikutty woke up,
Jayanandan attacked her with an iron wok turner on the head.
Elikutty's daughter and son-in-law woke up hearing the scuffle and saw
Jayanandan escaping from the scene and the old woman lying in a pool
of blood with the wok turner stuck deep inside her head.
Police had charged Jayanandan with murder, robbery,
and trespassing into the house based on the statements of Elikutty's
daughter and son-in-law.
On November 2, a CBI special court here had awarded
death sentence to him for murdering 60-year-old Devaki and robbing of
her bangles after cutting off her hands. on October 2, 2006.
During the interrogationby police, he confessed to
having committed seven murders during robbery attempts. Jayanandan
also told cops he killed Devaki and poured kerosene at the place and
left after leaving the cooking gas on.
The seven murders committed by Jayanandan include
the double murder at Perinjanam. Thrissur principal sessions judge V
Kemal Pasha had sentenced him to death by hanging in the case in June
2008. In the Perinjanam incident in October 2004, Jayanandan had
robbed the inmates of the house, Kalapurackkal Sahadevan and his wife
Nirmala, of 11.25 sovereigns of gold and bludgeoned them to death.
Jayanandan's first major offence was burgling the
house of 45-year-old Jose in Mala police station limits in September
2003. During the robbery, he struck Jose, who was sleeping, with a
crowbar and killed him and decamped with Rs 17,000 and a video
cassette player.
His second burglary was in March 2004, in which he
forced his way into a house in Mala police station limits itself,
killing 51-year-old Nabeesa who woke up hearing the noise and came
out. Upon entering the house, he killed two more women, 23-year-old
Fousiya and 28-year-old Noorjahan, and two children.
In his third burglary in October 2004, Jayanandan
killed Sahadevan, 64, and his wife Nirmala, 58, in their house at
Perinjanam in Mathilakam police station limits and then decamped with
gold ornaments weighing 11 sovereigns.
His next attack was at a house in Kodungallur
police station limits in Kozhikode, in which he attacked Aravindaksha
Panicker and wife Omana Panicker and caused grievous injuries to both,
besides robbing 18-sovereign gold ornaments.
Jayanandan's next target was an outlet of Kerala
State Beverages Corporation at North Paravoor in August 2005. When the
security guard Subhashakan challenged him, Jayanandan struck him on
the head with an iron rod and killed him.
Serial killer sentenced to death
The Times of India
November 3, 2011
KOCHI: A 39-year-old serial killer was sentenced to
death by a CBI special court on Wednesday for robbing and murdering a
51-year-old woman.
On Tuesday, the special court judge, Jose Thomas,
declared Jayanandan, a native of Mala, guilty of murdering 51-year-old
Devaki and attacking her 60-year-old husband Ramakrishnan on October
2, 2006.
Announcing the death sentence, the court observed
that it is one of the rarest of rare cases and that the act of cutting
off the hands of the victim to rob her after murdering her was
barbaric and brutal. The murder was not the result of any sudden
provocation. If death sentence is not awarded, it would result in
people losing faith in the judicial system, the judge said while
proclaiming the sentence.
During police interrogation, Jayanandan confessed
that he committed seven murders during previous robbery attempts.
According to the police, he killed Devaki, after
which he poured kerosene in the house, leaving the cooking gas on.
The seven murders committed by Jayanandan include
the double murder at Perinjanam. Thrissur principal sessions judge V
Kamal Pasha had also sentenced him to death by hanging in the case in
June 2008. In the Perinjanam incident, Jayanandan robbed Kalapurackkal
Sahadevan (64) and his wife Nirmala (58), of 11.25 sovereigns of gold
and bludgeoned them to death, in October 2004.
His first major offence was burgling the residence
of 45-year-old Jose, 45 in Mala police station limits in September
2003. During the robbery, he struck Jose, who was sleeping, with a
crowbar and killed him, taking off with Rs17,000 and a video cassette
player.
His second burglary was in March 2004, in which he
forced his way into a house, again in Mala police station limits,
killing 51-year-old Nabeesa who woke up hearing the noise and came
out. Upon entering the house, he killed two more women, 23-year-old
Fousiya and 28-year-old Noorjahan, and two children.
His next attack was at a house in Kodungallur
police station limits in Kozhikode, in which he attacked Aravindaksha
Panicker and wife Omana Panicker, causing grievous injuries to both.
