Canada - Maple Batalia, 19, SFU student, shot to death, Surrey, BC, 28 Sept 2011

[Valleyboy]

http://www.thenownewspaper.com/news/372127891.html

NEW WESTMINSTER — Final submissions will be heard Thursday and Friday in the trial of Gursimar Bedi, who is charged with manslaughter using a firearm and accessory after the fact in the 2011 shooting and stabbing death of Maple Batalia.

The Crown has finished its case and Bedi's lawyers did not call evidence in defence. The trial is being heard by Justice Terry Schultes in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster.

 

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Maple Batalia's killer, Gurjinder Dhaliwal, sentenced to life in prison

Justice Terence Schultes gave Dhaliwal a life sentence for second-degree murder. He won't be eligible for parole for 21 years.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/maple-batalia-gurjinder-dhaliwal-sentencing-1.3479525

Eligible for parole in 21 years .. Maple only lived for 19 years.

Just look at her .. since I've never said this about anyone before, I will say it about Maple .. I think she is the most beautiful young lady I've ever seen. Shameful that she was not allowed to live her life out and have the opportunity to reach her full potential.

Heartbroken for her family, still.

 

[Valleyboy]

Friend of man who killed B.C. student not guilty of manslaughter: Crown

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...y-of-manslaughter-crown-says/article29286405/




A man accused of helping his friend after the latter shot and killed a former girlfriend took the vehicle used on the day of the attack through a car wash, the Crown says.

But while the Crown urged a B.C. Supreme Court judge to convict Gursimar Bedi of being an accessory after the fact to murder, prosecutors invited the judge to acquit on a charge of manslaughter with a firearm. The Crown said it now does not believe it can prove Mr. Bedi could have foreseen the bodily harm that occurred.

The defence argued that Mr. Bedi should not be convicted of any charge, telling the court that the only thing he’s guilty of is “having poor taste in friends.”

 

[dotr]

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-...-murder-deserves-six-years-in-jail-crown-says

[h=1]Accessory to Maple Batalia murder deserves six years in jail, Crown says[/h]

Batalia was shot three times by her ex-boyfriend, Gurjinder Dhaliwal, as she left the university’s Surrey campus. Dhaliwal pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received the mandatory sentence of life in prison with no parole eligibility for 21 years.
In sentencing submissions Monday, Crown counsel Wendy Stephen said the aggravating factors included that the killing involved an ambush of a young woman and that Bedi was involved in assisting Dhaliwal for three days before the murder and in the days following the slaying.
She noted that Bedi had rented the vehicle used in the commission of the offence and had gone to the SFU campus in the days before the murder to observe the victim and report back to Dhaliwal.

Gursimar Bedi’s high school graduation photo. Vancouver Sun / PNG

It may well have been that the enraged Dhaliwal would have killed Batalia at some other place and time, Stephen told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Terence Schultes. “But the fact he was able to do so at SFU at that time was directly contributed to by Mr. Bedi’s behaviour before the killing.”

 

[Hazel]

Published Saturday, February 3, 2018 3:19PM EST
Last Updated Sunday, February 4, 2018 11:38AM EST

A B.C. family is outraged after a man found guilty of being an accessory in the murder of a 19-year-old university student was released from prison six months early under the province’s statutory release law.

On Jan. 27, 2017, Gursimar Bedi received a 22-month sentence, minus time already served, for his role in the 2011 slaying of Maple Batalia, who was an aspiring model and actress. That credit for time served ultimately reduced his sentence to 18 months.

Bedi, who was friends with Batalia’s killer, Gurjinder Dhaliwal, rented the getaway vehicle that was used after Batalia was shot three times and slashed in the head with a knife.

“She was innocent,” Rose Batalia said via Skype from California. “(Bedi) did not even know her, had nothing to do with her, and he was the last voice of reason that could have prevented this cold-blooded murder from happening. He was Mr. Dhaliwal’s best friend. If someone was a great person, they would have talked their friend out of doing something this stupid.”

VIDEO at link: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/man-l...-teen-set-free-on-statutory-release-1.3788389

 

[Baciagalupo]

I'd be angry too. :maddening:

 

[Hazel]

“His roles in stalking my sister and working as an informant, as the eyes and ears of Mr. Dhaliwal allowed Mr. Dhaliwal to access my sister. Otherwise, [Dhaliwal] had a no-contact order.”

Bedi had also faced a charge of manslaughter in the killing, but was found not guilty on that count.

WATCH: Maple Batalia's family discusses how her relationship with boyfriend deteriorated


WATCH: Maple Batalia’s sister, Roseleen, and mother, Sarbjit, recall what kind of person Maple was like.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4004948/...-killers-accomplice-released-from-jail-early/

 

[dotr]

WATCH: Maple Batalia's family discusses how her relationship with boyfriend deteriorated


WATCH: Maple Batalia’s sister, Roseleen, and mother, Sarbjit, recall what kind of person Maple was like.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4004948/...-killers-accomplice-released-from-jail-early/

Absolutely heartbreaking, this bright, talented and exquisitely beautiful young woman slain, because some brat got rejected. So sad and unnecessary.

 

[dotr]

Feb 28 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6X0_9HDzA

[h=1]Cold case: Still mourning Maple Batalia[/h]

 

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May 13 2022