The mother of two boys murdered by their dad has said it would have been easier to cope with if he was insane rather than just evil.
Kathleen Chada’s life was torn apart when Sanjeev abducted and strangled Eoghan, 10, and five-year-old Ruairi.
He left their bodies in the boot of his car in July 2013.
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Kathleen said: “There is a part of me that would say it would be easier if he was insane because it would be an answer, it would be a diagnosis.
“As opposed to, my husband was evil and selfish and narcissistic and chose to take the lives of our two beautiful boys for his own purposes.”
The Carlow woman also told how she found an old email written by Sanjeev after the deaths detailing his murder-suicide plan.
She explained: “Probably about six weeks after the boys were killed, I was going through some paperwork and I came across an email that Sanjeev had written about a year-and-a-half earlier.
“In it, he basically indicated that he, I and Eoghan, and Ruairi were all going to be dead. In other words he had planned a murder-suicide.”
Sanjeev, who pleaded guilty to the double murder, was caged for life in 2014.
He is now serving a life sentence at Dublin’s Arbour Hill Prison.
At his sentencing hearing, the court heard he had killed his sons to spare them the shame of learning that he had embezzled €56,000 from a community centre to pay debts from online trading.
On the day the kids were abducted, Sanjeev told Kathleen he was going to take the boys bowling.
Kathleen began to get worried after hours went by and she made contact with gardai who began searching.
Supt Martin Walker, who led the probe, said he had a bad feeling from the start.
He said: “I had a gut feeling something was terribly wrong, that sixth sense of a police man of 41 years’ service.
“My gut feeling was that there was something terribly wrong, something terribly sinister, something terribly dark about this whole event.”
Shortly after 3.30pm, Supt Walker got a call from colleagues who said Sanjeev had crashed his car into a wall near Westport.
Kathleen received a call from Sanjeev in which he told her the boys were dead.
She said: “I think he started off the conversation with there’s been a crash.
“And I was like, ‘Oh, are the boys OK? … and he actually said, ‘They’re dead in the back, no they’re dead in the back. I lost it at that point.”
He was later charged with both murders and was evaluated by medics who determined he was fit to stand trial and not insane.
The Case I Can’t Forget airs on RTE One at 9.35pm on Monday .
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