A young woman medical student of Indian origin has been found guilty of laying a fatal “honey trap” for a Sikh TV executive last February to punish him for attempting to rape her.
Mundil Mahil (20) was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm, while her two male accomplices — Harvinder Shoker and Darren Peters, both aged 20 — were convicted of murder.
Gagandip Singh (21), owner of Britain's satellite channel Sikh TV, was burnt to death after he was locked in the boot of his own car and the vehicle was set on fire.
The prosecution claimed that Mahil ordered Shoker, known as Ravi, and Peters to kill Gagandip after luring him to her house.
Gagandip was said to be “besotted” with Mahil and drove all the way from London to Brighton when he got a call from her inviting him to her house.
Shoker and Peters were “lying in wait for him” when he arrived there.
“He was attacked and beaten unconscious. He was then wrapped in Mahil's duvet and dumped into the boot of the Mercedes. Petrol was poured on the car as he lay either still unconscious from the beating, or completely helpless inside the boot,” the court was told.
All three denied murder.
Prosecutor Aftab Jafferjee QC told the jurythat Gagandip's killers tried to “play God.”
“Gagandip had his share of faults. There is no doubt about it. He may have deserved some punishment. But for a group of youngsters to decide that they are the custodians of Sikh virtue and play God on the subject of religious duty and moral obligation is a grotesque turn of events. The reality is this was vengeance for a sexual predator, which was the way they liked to portray the man who died,” he said.
Mahil and Gagandip had been friends since 2009. The murder of his father in a contract killing brought them closer and at the end of August 2010, he stayed the night in the house she shared with fellow female medical students. That's when he allegedly tried to rape her.
