Three Indian-origin persons have been found guilty of first-degree murder by a court in Canada in connection with the killing of a couple in Abbotsford, according to local broadcaster CBC News. Arnold and Joanne De Jong were found dead in their Abbotsford residence in May 2022. Four years later, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Brenda Brown on Friday ruled that Gurkaran Singh, Abhijeet Singh, and Khushveer Toor played a willing and integral role in the couple’s murder, the broadcaster reported.
The court has scheduled the sentencing of the three convicts for May 28. The judge agreed with prosecutors that the murders were financially motivated and rejected defence arguments that the deaths resulted from a robbery that went wrong, the report said. Prosecutors told the court the three men had jointly planned to rob and kill the couple, and they stole credit cards, cheques and a power washer from the house.
According to reports, the prosecutors also cited phone data evidence showing how Abhijeet Singh carried out Internet searches after reading news reports about the killings, including searches related to how murderers are punished in Canada.
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