AN IRISH MOTHER has said she looks forward to the day she can divorce the man who killed their sons.
Kathleen Chada's sons Eoghan, ten and Ruairi, five, were strangled by their father Sanjeev on July 29, 2013.
The boys' bodies were discovered in the boot of Chada's car after it had crashed into a wall near Westport with him in the driver's seat.
Chada, who had run up gambling debts, told his wife he was taking their sons bowling in Carlow but instead drove to Mayo where he strangled the boys with a rope before trying to kill himself.
Sanjeev Chada was convicted of the murders in 2014 and was sentenced to two life sentences at Dublin's Arbour Hill prison.
Eoghan and Ruairí were killed by their father in 2013.Speaking to The Irish Sun, Kathleen Chada said she has finalised plans to divorce Sanjeev Chada, and instructed her legal team last week to issue ‘notice of proceedings’ to her husband in prison.
The mum-of-two will attend the Family Court in the New Year as part of her efforts to cut all ties from the child killer.
She said: “My divorce from this monster should be completed at some stage in 2018.
“He will be getting papers in prison any day now and I’m looking forward to the day when my connection to him will end. The divorce isn’t about money or anything, it’s about him not having any rights.
“He could still be released one day and I would hate to see him standing at our sons’ graveside.”
She said she also believes she is lucky to be alive after the horrific murders.
She said: “I watched the coverage of the Hawe family inquest and I was thinking ‘That could have been me’.
“I didn’t consider myself a victim of domestic violence but yet there are so many similarities between my case and others.
“I know my husband had it in his mind to kill me but he also knew I would struggle and fight.
“He knew I wouldn’t be overpowered and that’s why he took my wonderful children.
“He knew I wouldn’t be overpowered and that’s why he took my wonderful children.' Above, Chada pictured outside court during trial. (Picture: RTÉ)“My heart goes out to the family of that poor woman and they are in my thoughts and prayers.”
She added: “My case is unusual because the killer of my sons is still alive... he didn’t have any mental health issues.
“You have to assume there was something but there was certainly no diagnosis and none since.
“He’s nothing but a coward who took the lives of two innocent children in the most brutal fashion.”
“I will never understand how he could physically bring himself to do what he did. I often ask myself how I couldn’t have seen this in him.”
She added: “If I saw him now I wouldn’t ask him why. I would ask him how did he have it in him to physically take our boys.
“I will never ever forgive him for what he did that day.
“His evil actions that day destroyed many lives and I’ve no doubt when my dad Billy and mum Patsy pass they will have died from broken hearts, as will I.
“We were a happy family, he was my husband and I loved him and that was also taken away... Nothing could have prepared us for this nightmare.”
