London, January 29 2007
Sant Parkash
NRI Jaskiran Bal was found guilty of the murder
of his wife, Marie Bal and he will serve at least 15 years in
jail.
English born Marie Bal, 22, originally from Gorse
Hill in Swindon was murderered on March 17, 2000 and after six
weeks her body was found in the knotted duvet cover, partly submerged
in the drainage canal near the Barking by-pass.
In 2002, Jaskiran Bal was found guilty of the murder
of his wife, Marie Bal. The case uncovered an unhappy marriage
dominated by fear and abuse. The mother of Marie, JENNY BASSETT
always knew who murdered her daughter Marie and her unborn grandchild.
The couple had a son and Bal insisted Marie assume the role of
a traditional Indian wife, said prosecutor Mr Aftab Jafferjee.
The court heard that Bal, 28, had simply tired of
his wife after beginning an affair with a teenage girl, Tanya
Shoaib. But he was trapped when police found a photograph of him
posing in his underpants on the same paint-stained duvet that
he used to conceal his wife's body. Marie had taken the picture
seven years before. Jaskiran Bal was convicted of murder and jailed
in April 2002.
Jaskiran Bal, came to London from India in 1993
and started seeing Marie Bassett, shortly afterwards when she
was just 16.
