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)
Method of murder: Bludgeoning to death
Location: Trichur/Ernakulam, Kerala State, India
Status: Sentenced to death in 2007 and June 2008
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.
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‘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.
