HUNTER: He was in Canada just six days -- then he murdered his wife
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Jagpreet Singh did not waste any time when he arrived on these shores.
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Just six days after landing in Canada, he brutally stabbed his wife of 20 years to death.
Now, he has been convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of Balwinder Kaur, 41, at her Abbotsford, B.C. apartment.
Typically, these are small family tragedies, however because of an avalanche of foreign criminals washing upon these shores, the tale stands out.
A narrative packed with malarkey
Like a roster of other villains, Jagpreet Singh, now 53, appears to have believed that you can get away with ANYTHING in Canada. His narrative was packed with malarkey, his defence was so obviously, outrageously B.S., that this time, that gambit didn’t fly.
He arrived in Canada from India on March 9, 2024. In a bitter twist, it was his wife who submitted the paperwork to help Singh get a visa and he stayed with Kaur in her basement suite. She came here to help her university student daughter.
But the reunion did not last long and it was not a happy rekindling of long lost love.
On March 15, 2024 — six days after he cleared customs, Singh and Kaur became engaged in an argument. She was later found with multiple stab wounds and died.
Singh went down on second-degree murder on Tuesday, not that he didn’t try to wiggle out of it. Sure, he caused the wounds but second-degree murder? Try manslaughter.
Kaur’s death came about, he argued, “in the heat of passion caused by sudden provocation.” It was her! She swung a knife at Singh first, he was only trying to disarm his angry wife.
What happened next? As per CTV News , he claimed he “accidentally ‘poked’ (quotations mine) her with the knife in her stomach.” All the rest? A blur. Court heard that “poke” was seven stab wounds in the neck and chest resulting in massive blood loss.
Judge blasts him as ‘untrustworthy and unreliable’
In a refreshing break from judicial activism, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Andrea Ormiston torpedoed Singh’s narrative. She called his evidence “untrustworthy and unreliable.” No reasonable doubt whatsoever.
“I have found Mr. Singh’s evidence about what transpired between him and Ms. Kaur in the time leading up to her death to be entirely unreliable, particularly on critical points such as the nature of the conflict between them before Ms. Kaur was stabbed, and Mr. Singh’s ensuing memory loss,” the judge wrote.
Before she was murdered, Balwinder Kaur told friends she was frightened of her husband. She did not want him coming to Canada.
She had very good reason to be terrified.
Headshrinkers now need to look at him and sentencing is not expected until after October.
No faith in CBSA to turf him
Still, the way things are going there is little doubt that when Jagpreet Singh is sprung from a federal prison, he will stay in Canada. After all, who’s going to tell him to get lost?
Justice Michael K. Wendl acknowledged as much when he obliterated a deal between the defence and Crown and quadrupled the jail sentence of devoted criminal frequent flier Manjeet Singh . The LCBO has been a favourite target.
Wendl said he has little confidence that the CBSA will boot Manjeet Singh, even though a deportation order has been in effect since 2022.
“Ultimately, I have no confidence that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) will actually deport (Manjeet) Singh,” Wendl wrote.
“Put bluntly, a deportation order has been in place for nearly four years. During that time, he has been in custody on serious criminal charges, under which CBSA could have readily located and removed him, yet no action has been taken.”
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