{"id":4459,"date":"2026-03-28T16:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:59:28","slug":"sanjay-mehta-in-lithgow-gaol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/sanjay-mehta-in-lithgow-gaol\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanjay Mehta in Lithgow Gaol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most awful crimes in my book is the story of Sanjay Mehta, on page 264.\u00a0 Sanjay was an Indian national who lived in Blacktown. On 5 May 2008 he threw the bodies of his wife and nine-year-old daughter off Echo Point, having previously killed them at home.\u00a0 He then escaped to India and for some reason, I thought the story ended there. The Indian newspaper reports seemed somewhat sympathetic to him as somebody from that country and I thought perhaps he got away with it.\u00a0 However, the decaying bodies were found 1 June 2008 by two bushwalkers below the lookout.\u00a0 \u00a0on 14 August 2009 he was sentenced to 30 years&#8217; imprisonment for the murder of his wife and life imprisonment for the murder of his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Today I found out from a prison officer at Lithgow Correctional Centre that he is in Lithgow Gaol. She said he expresses no remorse for his acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I found out from a prison officer at Lithgow Correctional Centre that he is in Lithgow Gaol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainsmishaps.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}