INDIAN-ORIGIN WOMAN, LOVER GET LIFE TERM FOR MURDER IN CANADA

TORONTO: An Indo-Canadian man and his mistress were served life sentence, without the option for parole for 25 years, after being found guilty by a jury for murder of his wife in January 2014.

The accused, 40-year-old Bhupinderpal Gill and 37-yearold Gurpreet Ronald, were then in an extramarital relationship. Finding them guilty of first-degree murder after nine-week trial in the Ottawa Superior Court, the jury sided with the investigators’ testimony that Ronald had killed Bhupinderpal’s wife Jagtar Gill (43).

The murder took place when Bhupinderpal left home on January 29, 2014, and Ronald went there and killed Jagtar, who was bedridden and was recovering from surgery. Police said Ronald repeatedly bludgeoned Jagtar, a mother of three, and also stabbed her. That day also happened to be the victim’s 17th wedding anniversary.

Ronald was arrested by police on April 7; Bhupinderpal was taken into custody a week later.

According to reports of the trial, emotions ran high in the courtroom as the verdict was reached. The proceedings ended after Jagtar’s niece Ramandeep Chahal read out an anguished statement on behalf of her family, which said: “Jagtar’s children have been robbed of a mother’s love. There is no closure, as we often hear. There is no moving on. There’s nothing, and we mean absolutely nothing, that makes you feel better. They say time heals all wounds but we have to disagree. The only thing time has done for our family is to move the tragic loss of Jagtar further away. It hasn’t made it better.”

The conspirators had met while they worked bus drivers in Ottawa. HTC