Mistress firmly stands her ground, denies murdering her lover’s wife

Gurpreet Ronald remained unshaken on Thursday as a lawyer insisted that she acted alone when she allegedly killed her lover’s wife in a jealous rage.

The attack came from her lover’s defence lawyer, James Harbic, who did his best to distance his client — Bhupinderpal Gill — from the 2014 killing of his wife, Jagtar Gill.

“You were feeling adrift, abandoned, and angry and you took it out on Jagtar with the hopes that one day you would be with Gill. Isn’t that the truth?” Harbic charged.

But Ronald flatly rejected the claim, saying she was no longer interested in him. It was Ronald’s third day on the stand in her own defence. Ronald, 37, and Gill, 41, are on trial for the Jan. 29. 2014 killing of Jagtar Gill, 43. She was slashed and bludgeoned to death in her Barrhaven home on the 17th anniversary of her arranged marriage.

Under cross-examination, Ronald repeatedly denied having anything to do with the killing.

The defence lawyer said Ronald alone planned and executed the killing, then fabricated an alibi to cover her tracks. The lawyer also claimed it was Ronald who disconnected the phone so Jagtar Gill couldn’t call 911 for help.

“I never did such thing,” Ronald countered.

Ronald has told the jury that she had nothing to do with the killing and only happened upon it after the fact. She says she was having tea with a doctor at the time of the murder. She has explained away incriminating evidence against her — including her blood found at the scene and the fact that she dumped a bloody knife and gloves along an NCC trail. Ronald said she was in shock, and felt like she was going to faint after making the horrifying discovery. She says she steadied herself on the living-room floor, and accidentally stepped on the bloody knife so she picked it up.

She feared that she’d be blamed for the killing because she was the mistress. So she put on latex gloves and wiped her prints off the bloody knife. She was shaking so much she said she accidentally cut herself on the knife. She then went looking for a Band-Aid upstairs, and said that’s how her blood got in the master bedroom, closet and bathroom. She also says she didn’t call 911 out of fear the murder would be pinned on her.