2 women jailed for Sikh’s murder in New Zealand
Wednesday, 18/12/2013
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2013/20131218/punjab.htm#20
Melbourne : Two women in New Zealand have been sentenced to eight years and eight months of imprisonment each for slaughtering a 22-year-old Sikh man after luring him to a beach on the pretext of having physical relations.
Amandeep Singh’s badly decomposed body was found at the Kaiti beach on January 24. Crystal Black (26) and her partner Krystel Pokai (25) appeared before Justice Murray Gilbert in the High Court at Gisborne yesterday after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
They also pleaded guilty to charges of car conversion, theft of Singh's credit card, using a document to obtain an advantage and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Amandeep, who was married, was living and working in Gisborne. On December 28, 2012, he gave Pokai a lift in his car, following which they exchanged phone numbers. They met the next day and the text messages exchanged between the two showed that he wanted to have physical relations with her but she did not.
Pokai and Black later texted Amandeep telling him that Pokai had changed her mind. Around midnight, the three drove to Kaiti beach in his car, where the two women beat him to death. The women then drove to a mall, where they tried to use his credit card.
Later, they drove to Black’s relative's home and asked her to clean their fingerprints from the car. On December 30, Black told her former partner that she and Pokai had "just killed a fella". Black's relative and her former partner reported the matter to the police, after which the women were taken into custody.
