An "overbearing" husband who battered his ex-wife to death following a bitter feud over their £480,000 martial home has been jailed for 28 years.
Jasbinder Gahir, 58, savagely beat his former partner Balvinder Gahir during a "sustained and frenzied" attack.
The 54-year-old, who was known as Bally, was found in a pool of blood at her home in Lillington, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire at 2.40am on August 24 last year.
A court heard IT worker Gahir had launched the brutal assault after she refused to sell the £480,000 property she had lived in since the couple divorced.
Gahir, who was described as "overbearing and manipulative", had previously been ordered to pay £30,000 to Balvinder as part of a family court settlement.
A recorded phone call captured Gahir's rage at the decision and he said he would attack her "because she's a greedy cow" and "I worked for it all."
He then broke into the property in the middle of the night and murdered his former wife following the bitter legal dispute.
Gahir went on trial accused of murder alongside his son Rohan, 23, who acted as getaway driver on the night his mother was killed.
On Wednesday (28/4) Gahir senior was found guilty by a jury at Coventry Crown Court while his son was cleared of the charge.
Gahir junior was instead convicted of perverting the course of justice and the pair, both of Maidenhead, Berks.
He was caged for three-and-a-half years for perverting the course of justice.
The three month trial was told how Balvinder's lifeless body was found at the house after she was subjected to a "frenzied" attack.
Philip Bradley QC, prosecuting, said: "On the evening of Sunday the 23rd of August Balvinder Gahir, known to her family and friends as Bally, went to bed
"The prosecution case is that Gahir entered 278 Valley Road unannounced and walked upstairs to Bally's bedroom.
"Once there he subjected her to a sustained and frenzied attack, repeatedly striking her head and body so that when the emergency services arrived she was in a pool of her own blood.
"A piece of her skull had become detached so that it flapped, exposing a degree of the inside of her head as the medics battled to save her.
"Bally was pronounced dead at the scene."
The court heard Mr and Mrs Gahir married in 1990 before emigrating to New Zealand where she fell pregnant with twin boys.
They returned to the UK in 1995 and moved to Leamington Spa where they had Rohan in 1997.
The house in Valley Road was in their joint names, but the marriage, in which Gahir became very controlling, ran into difficulties.
In 2008 the house was re-mortgaged to pay for an extension but Gahir then bought a property in his sole name in Slough, which he rented out.
Mr Bradley said shortly afterwards the couple split up and started arguing over money.
He said: "After Jasbinder had moved out Bally ended up in financial difficulty, and a County Court judge ordered that she would be responsible for the mortgage but that Jasbinder was to transfer his interest in the property to her and to pay her £30,000 - in default of which the Slough property would have to be sold.
"In the months and years that followed, Jasbinder did not pay the money, but Bally resisted pulling the trigger and enforcing the court order."
The court heard Mrs Gahir had been pressured to sell the Valley Road house and share the proceeds with her ex-husband but had refused.
Mr Bradley said: "It had become a hot family topic" adding that the dispute over the property was behind the murder.
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