There is already some on-line chatter about the Crown taking a plea to second degree. I have dealt with the Crown in this case and he is very fair but very tough.
And he doesn't shy away from a trial -- quite the reverse.
If Steve Sherriff agreed to a plea to a lesser offence that's because the lesser offence was appropriate. No question.
Toronto Star
Bob Mitchell
Staff Reporter
A Mississauga man has admitted he murdered his daughter-in-law to uphold his family honour.
Kamikar Singh Dhillon, 48, confessed in court Friday to stabbing Amandeep Kaur Dhillon, 22, multiple times on Jan. 1, 2009 because he believed she was having an affair with another man and was about to leave her husband.
The father-in-law was given a life sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in her death.
She was stabbed multiple times about her head and upper body, including a wound on her face and a slash across her throat.
"I'm just sorry," he told the court through a Punjabi interpreter. "I'm guilty."
Justice Bruce Durno will impose his parole ineligibility of between 10 to 25 years on June 9.
Dhillon admitted he murdered his daughter-in-law because he believed she was about to leave her husband, the convicted man's son, for another man the next day, Crown prosecutor Steve Sherriff said in an agreed statement read into court.
"He maintained throughout all of his interviews that her pending separation from her husband would disgrace the family name, which justified his killing her," Sherriff said.
4 comments:
These kinds of murders are increasing in Canada. Last year 4 women were found dead in a car in Ontario.It was the same kind of murder.
What I find so troubling is the lack of outrage from the "women's groups" on these kinds of deaths.It is very odd.
Anonymous, there is no "lack of outrage" from women's groups, about violence against women, regardless of the victims' ethnic origin or religious beliefs.
Perhaps you're not seeing the islamophobic hate-fest that you're feeling, and you're projecting your disappointment.
There is no justification for abusing, assaulting, violating or killing women - whether the perpetrators are privileged men of pallour or men from a culture you fear.
debeaux
Show me the outrage in this crime.
Show me the headlines.
Where are the candle light vigils?
Your platitudes are just that.They are irrelevant.
I despise platitudes.
Frankly, there is no justification for killing anyone Women or men. Not very helpful is it.
In a way it is not unlike the detatchment Canadians had with the Air India bombing back in 1985.
This should not be done...
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