A SEVEN KINGS HUSBAND, WHO COULD NOT ACCEPT HIS MA

A SEVEN KINGS HUSBAND, WHO COULD NOT ACCEPT HIS MARRIAGE WAS OVER,

BROKE INTO A REFUGE FOR ASIAN WOMEN AND STABBED HIS WIFE TO DEATH IN

FRONT OF THEIR THREE CHILDREN, AN OLD BAILEY JURY HEARD ON MONDAY.

BHAGWANT SINGH PANESAR, 36, MANAGED TO TRACE HIS WIFE,
BALWANT, 29, ALTHOUGH SHE HAD OBTAINED A COURT ORDER THAT STIPULATED
HE MUST NOT CONTACT HER OR THE CHILDREN, SAID MR ALLAN GREEN,
PROSECUTING.

DAYS BEFORE THE KILLING PANESAR, ARMED WITH A ‘LARGE KITCHEN
KNIFE’, MADE THREATS TO KILL OUTSIDE THE REFUGE IN NICOL ROAD,
HARLESDEN.

ON THAT OCCASSION HIS TWO YOUNG MALE COMPANIONS, WHO THOUGHT
THEY WERE ON A BURGLARY EXPEDITION, FLED IN HORROR WHEN THEY SAW THE
KNIFE.

COUNSEL SAID THAT PANESAR TOLD THEM THERE WAS ‘A WOMAN IN THE

HOUSE I HAVE TO STAB AND KILL.

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AND HE ALLEGEDLY OFFERED THEM #3,000 EACH TO HELP HIM.

THE NEXT DAY THE YOUTHS WENT BACK AND WARNED THE OCCUPANTS AND
LOCAL POLICE ‘WHAT WAS AFOOT’, SAID MR GREEN.

BUT A WEEK LATER, ON OCTOBER 22, LAST YEAR, PANESAR CREPT
THROUGH AN OPENED KITCHEN WINDOW AND WENT INTO THE GROUND FLOOR
BEDROOM WHERE HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN WERE SLEEPING.

SHE WAS BEATEN ABOUT THE HEAD WITH A BLUNT INSTRUMENT AND
STABBED.

ANOTHER WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE ROOM HID TERRIFIED UNDER THE
BEDCLOTHES, THE JURY HEARD.

WOMEN WHO HEARD A MALE VOICE RUSHED FROM THEIR ROOMS AND SAW A
MAN COME OUT OF THE BEDROOM WITH A BLOOD STAINED KNIFE.

MRS SINGH WAS RUSHED TO HOSPITAL BUT DIED A SHORT TIME LATER.

PANESAR, UNEMPLOYED OF MEAD’S LANE, SEVEN KINGS, ILFORD,
DENIES MURDER.

AFTER HIS ARREST HE INSISTED HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF
WHERE HIS WIFE WAS LIVING.

HIS FINGERPRINTS WERE FOUND ON THE WINDOW AND INSIDE THE
REFUGE, THE JURY HEARD.

SATWINDER RAJA SINGH, 22, UNEMPLOYED OF ST PAULS TOWER,
BEAUMONT ROAD, LEYTON, AND LAD DARWAR SINGH, UNEMPLOYED, 21, OF
WINDSOR ROAD, LEYTON HAVE BOTH PLEADED GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY COMMIT
BURGLARY AT NICOL ROAD ON OCTOBER 18 LAST YEAR AND WILL BE SENTENCED
LATER.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

ENDS.