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Sangat helps
slain Kiwi Sikh's wife
WSN Bureau
Auckland:
Auckland's Sikh community has gathered at Manukau City Council to
present a cheque to the widow of murdered liquor store owner Navtej
Singh. It has been two months since Singh was fatally shot in his
South Auckland liquor store and the close-knit Sikh society has been
working hard to present his widow with the cheque.
Singh's family
is in the process of lodging a formal complaint about the time
police took to let ambulance staff through to help him after he was
shot during a robbery.
"Navtej was an
integral part of our society," a society spokesman said, adding that
the society would be there to help the family.
The Kiwi movie
Apron's Strings - a film featuring an Indian Sikh family in
South Auckland
- raised $13,000 for the family and another $47,000 was raised by
the community.
Manukau City
councillor Arthur Annae said that although no amount of money could
replace the family's loss it was good to see the community spirit is
still strong.
And that
community will lodge a complaint to the Police Conduct Authority in
the next few days, questioning the time it took emergency services
to reach Navtej.
Sandeep Verma
made the initial calls to the ambulance on the night of the shooting
and says he could hear ambulance sirens outside over half an hour
before police let ambulance staff through the cordon to help.
Family spokesman
Ajit Singh says Verma was at the site when the shooting took place
and saw the victim in a pool of blood for about 25 -35 minutes.
"Nobody cared
about him, nobody came and picked him up," Ajit Singh said. "He [Verma]
saw all that."
27 August, 2008
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