The Canadian Bazaar
BRAMPTON: Brampton man Dalwinder Singh, 32, has been given two life sentences for beating and killing his wife and mother-in-law in January 2018.
Both life sentences will run concurrently.
The killings took place on January 12, 2018, over Lohri celebrations for Singh’s infant son.
He got angry about the financial burden when he came to know that his wife and mother-in-law had planned Lohri celebrations next day for his son without his knowledge.
After heated argument lasting 11 minutes with the two women, he stabbed his wife Baljit Thandi, 32, and mother-in-law Avtar Kaur, 60.
After the killings, he phoned his family friends to say, “I killed them both. I couldn’t tolerate anymore. I was tired of their lying.”
On that fateful day on January 12, 2018, Peel Regional Police rushed to the residence on Starhill Crescent in the area of Sandalwood Parkway and Dixie Road in Brampton after getting an emergency call at about 10.45 pm.
When police reached the residence, officers found the bodies of Baljit Thandi and Avtar Kaur on the kitchen floor with fatal stab wounds. Singh was found holding the baby inside the home.
It came out during the trial that Singh’s wife suffered more than 70 injuries and his mother-in-law more than 40 wounds.
The court heard that Singh, after heated argument, attacked the two women in an upstairs bedroom and then dragged them to the kitchen where he continued to stab them.
To mislead the police that he was attacked by the two women and that they killed themselves, he tried to place a knife in the hand of his dead wife and another next to the body of his mother-in-law.
The couple got married in 2016. Their troubles began in 2017 when Singh was charged with assaulting his wife just after the birth of their son.
At the time of the killings, Singh was under court orders not be around his wife or live at the residence.
Sentencing Singh on Friday, Superior Court Justice Kofi Barnes said, “The evidence is overwhelming. Mr. Singh’s actions were senseless, shocking and tragic.”
Singh will spend at least 25 years behind bars before he could be eligible for parole.
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