London, December 9: Twenty-year-old non-resident Indian medical student Mundill Mahil has admitted “moral responsibility” for her ex-boyfriend Gagandip Singh’s death. At the Old Bailey court, defence lawyer Michael Birnbaum said Mahil was ‘horrified’ by the murder. “She acknowledges a substantial amount of moral responsibility for the death of Gagandip,” he was quoted as telling the jury on Wednesday. “It goes without saying this is a most dreadful killing and you will have sympathy for the friends and the family of young Gagandip.” In a case that has seen unattractive and raw human emotions at work, Mahil ordered two ‘gangster friends’ to kill a ‘besotted’ Sikh television executive Gagandip in revenge after he tried to rape her.
Mahil lured millionaire Gagandip to her house, where he was beaten unconscious then bundled into the boot of a car and burned alive, a jury was told in a court yesterday. According to the report, Mahil denies ordering her ‘gangster friends’ Harinder Shoker and Darren Peters, both 20, to kill Singh, the owner of a news broadcasting service, Sikh TV.