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NRI Palwinder Singh Dhillon
in court charged with murder
Palwinder Singh Dhillon was arrested on 26/08/03
for the murder of Anita Gindha in Manor Park E12.
On 21/05/04 Palwinder Singh Dillon was found guilty
at the Central Criminal Court of murder. He was sentenced to
life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of 16 years.
Jail for illegal immigrant who killed pregnant
Glasgow mother
A 65-year-old illegal immigrant has been jailed for life for
the murder of a pregnant Glasgow mother. A jury took less than
90 minutes to find Palwinder Singh Dhillon guilty of the killing
in February last year. The judge recommended that Dhillon serve
at least 16 years in prison, and then be deported.
Twenty-two-year-old Anita Gindha was only a matter
of weeks away from giving birth to a longed-for baby girl when
she was strangled to death at her home in East London in February
last year. Her terrified toddler son was crying by her side
when her body was discovered.
Anita had run away from her Glasgow home two years
previously after rejecting an arranged marriage. Suspicion fell
on this man, 64-year old Palwinder Singh Dhillon, an illegal
immigrant who used to do odd jobs on the building site where
Anita's husband was foreman. After the murder hair from his
beard was found clutched in Anita's hand, and some of her jewelry
was found locked in his suitcase.
Today a jury took just one and a half hours to
decide that Palwinder Singh Dhillon was guilty of Anita Gindha's
murder. He was given an automatic life sentence with the recommendation
that he serve at least 16 years in jail. The judge also recommended
that he's deported once his sentence is finished.
After the verdict Anita Gindha's husband Kashmir
expressed his anger that a man he had trusted and looked up
to as an uncle had wrecked his life. He said, "I want the
murderer's wife and children to feel the same grief and loss
that I feel, and that my son feels, my son who still looks for
his mother."
Palwinder Dhillon is now in jail, starting his
life sentence. Because he will not be considered for release
before he is 81, it is very possible that life will mean life.
Friday 29th August, 09:34 BST
An Asian man will appear before Magistrates in east London today,
charged with murdering a heavily pregnant woman.
Palwinder Singh Dhillon, who's from the West Midlands, is accused
of strangling 22-year-old Anita Gindha at her home in east London,
on February 19th. Mrs Gindha's body was found on the sofa in the
lounge of her home by her builder husband on his return from work.
Their 18-month-old son was by her side.
Reward in pregnant woman murder
case Jun 3 2003
Scotland Yard have released details of a man police want
to question in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old pregnant
woman.
They also offered a £10,000 reward for information leading
to the arrest of Palwinder Singh Dhillon, 64, who they want to
question over the killing of Anita Gindha.
Mrs Gindha, who was eight months' pregnant with her second
child, was found by her husband, Kashmir Ralh, 32, as he returned
from work to the family home in Manor Park, east London, on Wednesday
February 19. She had been strangled. The couple's 18-month-old
son, Fahil, was at her side, unharmed.
Police described Dhillon as a Sikh with a long white beard
who wears a turban and sometimes glasses.
He originates from the Punjab but detectives believe he is
still in the UK rather than abroad.
A police spokesman said a motive for the killing was still
being investigated but there was no evidence to suggest it was
racially or sexually motivated.
Det. Insp. Stuart Wratten, part of the investigation team
from the Specialist Crime Directorate East, said: "Anita
was heavily pregnant and completely defenceless against her attacker,
who had no concern for the fact that her young son was with her
at the time.
"As part of our investigation we would
now like to speak to Mr Dhillon and would urge anyone who knows
his whereabouts or who may have seen a man matching his description
to contact us immediately."