KOTTAYAM: Accused Muhammed Bilal revealed that he murdered and robbed the housewife at Thazhathangady in Kottayam for money to see his fiancée. He told police that he wanted money to go to Assam to see his lover whom he got acquainted via social media. While questioning him, he told police that he got money via online games.

He was not in good terms with his father. He did not have any other way to find money and so he planned to rob the family, but this ended in a murder. He confessed to the police that he used to play online games frequently and obtain money through it.

Meantime, the police who got his custody for three days, will take him to Alappuzha where he stayed in a lodge for three days. Mobile phones of Sheeba, keys, knives and scissors were recovered while collecting evidence at Thanneermukkom. He threw all these to Vembanad Lake from Thanneermukkom bund on his way to Alappuzha from Kottayam soon after committing the crime.