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British
Sikh girl sentenced to life
WSN Network
LONDON: A British Sikh student was on Friday sentenced to life
imprisonment for killing her Muslim lover’s pregnant wife in a fit
of jealousy, and what the police said was a “desperate” attempt to
save her relationship.
Delivering the verdict after a three-week trial, judge John Saunders
told 23-year-old Harmohinder Sanghera, a dentistry student of
Birmingham University, that in view of the degree of premeditation
and planning with which she acted she must serve a minimum 14-year
sentence.
Describing it as an “absolutely tragic case,” the police said it had
wrecked two families. "Sanghera was jealous and desperate and went
to incredible lengths to try to save her relationship, the result of
which was this horrific murder,” the Detective Superintendent Jane
Antrobus of the Greater Manchester police said.
Earlier, a jury found Ms. Sanghera guilty of stabbing Sana Ali (17)
with a kitchen knife more than 40 times after gaining entry into her
house in Bury, Greater Manchester.
Ms. Ali’s husband, Sair Ali (24), with whom the accused had been in
a relationship since 2005, was not at home when the incident
happened. The jury rejected Ms. Sanghera’s claim that when she left
Ms Ali’s home the latter was fine. She claimed that she visited Ms.
Ali simply to tell her about her affair with Mr. Ali.
Ms. Sanghera and Mr. Ali (24), said to be from an orthodox Pakistani
family, met at Birmingham University two years ago and started a
relationship which continued even after Mr. Ali quietly married his
cousin Sana during a visit to Pakistan last December. When Ms.
Sanghera found out about the marriage, she was reportedly livid and
demanded that Mr. Ali divorce his wife.
The prosecution said she even contemplated becoming Mr. Ali’s second
wife and converting to Islam but all this changed when she
discovered that Ms. Ali was pregnant.
5 December, 2007
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