Family torn apart by double murder
The court heard some of the signs were there years before.
In 2009, police were called to the house after Ghuman threatened his wife with a knife.
Three years later, the court heard he told her he’d do it again, kill her and go to jail for it.
Just four months before the deaths, police were called again after he – in the words of Crown prosecutor Nathan Crane – “acted like a pork chop” and drunkenly banged on the door and threw rocks at his in-laws’ house next door while yelling to those inside to come out.
Manjinderjit’s daughter Manraj revealed a glimpse of life inside the Wiltshire Dr home during a powerful statement she read out in court in the moments after the jury found him guilty of two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of wounding.
She spoke of 20 years of struggling through the former taxi driver’s ineptitude as a father and the ongoing suffering of her mum.
“How could I possibly sum up the social, mental and future impact that I will continue to feel from one man’s actions for over 20 years?,” the young university student said.
“A father is supposed to be a caretaker, protector and a person that I should be able to trust with my life, however I got the complete opposite of these characteristics.
“My own father betrayed me and manipulated me and broke my trust.
“He continuously hurt me and my family.”
Many of those on Wiltshire Dr who watched the trauma unfold remain traumatised by what they saw, with Mrs Kaur stabbed repeatedly in the centre of the street in the middle of the afternoon.
Some had to re-live it while giving evidence in court.
Lead investigator Detective Sergeant Dan Bramham said emergency services arrived to mayhem that day.
“It was a terrible thing for that entire street and some of the witnesses have suffered horribly by this,” he said.