THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: ''What has happened is not right. I will soon speak about it to the media,'' Prof (Retd) T J Mathew, father of Nino Mathew who was sentenced to death in the Attingal twin murder case, said on Tuesday.
When Express met him outside his home, he expressed his reluctance to speak out, but said that he was preparing to call a press conference soon. ''I'm in the process of writing it all down. I will soon call a press conference and tell it all,'' he said, but did not choose to elaborate.
The big house tucked away in its spacious grounds in a bylane near Akkulam wore a deserted look, the gate locked from the inside. On Monday, the Principal Sessions Court, Thiruvananthapuram, had sentenced Nino to death and Anu Shanti, his colleague in a Technopark firm, to life for the murder of the latter's daughter Swastika and mother-in-law Omana two years ago.
The murders were committed on April 16, 2014, with the affair between Nino and Anu Shanti being the motive for the crime. Mathew was the 43rd witness in the case, and the retired professor's letter to his son urging him to stop his affair with Anu Shanti had proved a crucial evidence. Nino had also used a mobile phone number taken in Mathew's name to contact Anu Shanti.
On Tuesday, the father in him was inconsolable. ''The DySP called him 'hated.' But at Technopark they only had good to say of him,'' Mathew said. ''I, my wife's family and the parish cannot believe what has happened,'' he said.