Indian student gets life for murdering flatmates

SYDNEY: An Indian-origin student in Australia has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the New South Wales Supreme Court for bludgeoning two flatmates to death with a baseball bat.

Ram Puneet Tiwary, 27, murdered Chow Lyang Tay and Poh Chuan Tan at the home they shared in Kingsford, Sydney.

The three were studying engineering at the University of NSW and had come from Singapore, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Tiwary, who owed one flatmate $5,000, beat both of them several times with the baseball bat and stabbed them in the neck to make sure they were dead.