Woman Kills Pregnant Pakistani Woman

[SaRpAnCh]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

'Mistress stabbed lover's pregnant Muslim wife to death in jealous rage

A pregnant Muslim teenager was stabbed to death in her own bedroom in a ferocious and sustained attack by her Sikh love rival, a court was told today.

Dentistry student Harmohinder Kaur Sanghera knifed the wife of her secret lover in an act which was "borne of jealousy and desperation".

Sana Ali, 17, of Bury, Greater Manchester, received 42 separate wounds to her body, including one which penetrated deep into her abdomen. She was 11 weeks pregnant at the time of her death.

Mr Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, told Manchester Crown Court that Sanghera, 23, had been having an affair with Sana's husband Sair since July 2005.

The relationship continued despite the Alis' arranged marriage in December last year, although Mr Ali hid the fact from Sanghera for most of the time.

Mr Wright said whoever murdered Mrs Ali at her home in Throstle Grove had deliberately lifted her top while she lay on the bedroom floor and stabbed her in her abdomen.

"The deeply personal element points unhappily, and unequivocally, to the identity of the killer being the defendant," he said.

"You may conclude from the evidence that the defendant not only resented Sana Ali but resented that she was expecting the child of her husband."

He said the relationship between Mr Ali and Sanghera, of Monastery Drive, Solihull, ended when she killed her rival for his affections in May this year.

Mrs Ali lived in a large four-bedroom detached home on the outskirts of Bury with her husband and his parents following the arranged marriage.

Born in Pakistan, she was shy and reserved and did not go out very often.

From childhood she had been considered to marry her cousin who was also of the Shia Muslim faith.

The court was told Sanghera, a Birmingham University student in her final year of exams, had been in a relationship with Mr Ali for two years.

Mr Ali and the defendant, known as Mindy, met through a mutual friend in the summer of 2005 and soon after started a relationship, but concealed it from his parents.

Mr Wright said: "From the outset Sair Ali lived a lie. He did not tell the defendant he was engaged to be married. As the relationship became more serious Sair used religion as a pretence for a reason why it could not last."

Sanghera persisted though and soon began to change her habits to suit his religion. She was even prepared to convert to the Muslim faith and went to see a prominent Shia figure to explore the possibility of a mixed marriage.

Mr Ali made several attempts to end the relationship but his efforts were "half-hearted".

"The weakness of Sair Ali and the determination of Sanghera was a dangerous combination," Mr Wright said.

In December 2006 Mr Ali flew out to Pakistan for the marriage ceremony but lied to his lover that he was going to Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage.

Sanghera became suspicious and Mr Ali told her he was engaged.

Mr Wright said he did not have the courage or decency then to tell her the truth that he was, in fact, married.

By this time, the Crown says, Sanghera was "infatuated" with Mr Ali and was "obsessive" in her pursuit of him.

Earlier this year she discovered he was married but sadly this did not deter her, the court heard.

Soon after, in March, Mr Ali told her his wife was pregnant but in a bid to keep the affair alive she said she was prepared to become his second wife.

He refused but eventually relented and the pair took part in a muta marriage ceremony, a temporary arrangement which allows a man and woman to live as husband and wife for a specified time.

In their case the time limit ran out on May 16 - five days after Mrs Ali was found stabbed to death.

On May 10 Sanghera told a friend she intended to end the relationship and was going to drive from her home in West Midlands to confess to Mrs Ali about their affair.

The Crown suggested she had other matters on her mind. She knew the victim's in-laws were abroad and she knew Mr Ali would be attending Friday prayers at his local mosque on May 11.

Sanghera went to the house armed with a kitchen knife for a visit that was not intended to be a social call, the jury of nine women and three men heard.

Later that afternoon, relatives of Mrs Ali found her blood-stained body in her bedroom.

When arrested, Sanghera told police Mrs Ali let her in through the back door because the front door was locked.

She said she told Mrs Ali she was an ex-girlfriend of her husband called Mariam and had sent a teddy bear to him. They went upstairs to the bedroom where she was shown the bear and they then chatted on the bed.

Sanghera said Mrs Ali was "alive and well, if not a little upset" when she left the house to drive home.

When Mr Ali found out that his wife had been brutally murdered he phoned Sanghera.

The court was told she did not mention calling on Mrs Ali and merely discussed flying out to Milan or Paris with him for a weekend away.

Mr Wright said the defendant was a highly intelligent woman who was forensically aware.

Her bare footprints were found on the work surface near the open kitchen window, suggesting that was the method she left the house. Sanghera said she had clambered up to the window when Mrs Ali asked for her help to close it.

Mr Wright said for the defendant to be not responsible, someone else had gained access and repeatedly stabbed her in a sustained and ferocious attack.

He said: "It is the Crown's case that this was no murder by a random psychopath who happened to pass after Sanghera left. This was borne of jealousy and desperation."

Sanghera denies murder.

The trial was adjourned to tomorrow.

[Carpe Diem]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7093338.stm

Girlfriend 'killed pregnant wife'

Sana Ali was 11 weeks pregnant A pregnant teenager was stabbed to death in her bedroom in a ferocious and sustained attack by her husband's secret lover, a court heard. Harmohinder Kaur Sanghera, of Solihull, West Midlands, stabbed her boyfriend's wife in "jealousy and desperation", Manchester Crown Court heard.

Sana Ali, 17, of Bury, Greater Manchester, received 42 wounds.

The court heard Ms Sanghera, who denies murder, had been having an affair with Mrs Ali's husband Sair since July 2005.

Mr Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, told the court that the relationship continued despite the Alis' arranged marriage in December last year.

Stabbed in stomach

Mr Wright said Mrs Ali's murderer had deliberately lifted her top and stabbed her in her abdomen at her Throstle Grove home. She was 11 weeks pregnant.

"The deeply personal element points unhappily, and unequivocally, to the identity of the killer being the defendant," he said.

He said the relationship between Mr Ali and Ms Sanghera, a 23-year-old dentistry student in Birmingham, ended after the attack in May this year.

Mrs Ali was born in Pakistan and had been considered to marry her cousin who was also a Shia Muslim, the court heard.

This was borne of jealousy and desperation

Peter Wright QC

Prosecuting

Mr Ali and Ms Sanghera, a Sikh known as Mindy, started a relationship in 2005, but hid it from his parents.

Mr Wright said: "He did not tell the defendant he was engaged to be married.

"As the relationship became more serious Sair used religion as a pretence for a reason why it could not last."

In December 2006 when Mr Ali got married Ms Sanghera became suspicious and Mr Ali told her he was engaged.

In March Mr Ali told her his wife was pregnant, but Ms Sanghera said she would become his second wife.

The pair had a muta marriage ceremony - a temporary arrangement which means they could live as husband and wife for a specified time.

'Alive and well'

The time limit ran out on 16 May - five days after Mrs Ali was killed.

On 10 May Ms Sanghera told a friend she was going to end the relationship and tell Mrs Ali about their affair.

When arrested, Ms Sanghera told police Mrs Ali let her in after telling her she was an ex-girlfriend of her husband and had sent a teddy bear to him.

Ms Sanghera said Mrs Ali was "alive and well, if not a little upset" when she left the house.

Mr Wright said: "It is the Crown's case that this was no murder by a random psychopath who happened to pass after Sanghera left.

The case continues.

[Demonic Warrior]

Well she wasn't a Sikh, thats all I have to say.

[immortal57]

why do such people get labelled as "sikhs"

:lol:

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tell me somthing

when white ppl do this to one another, do the articles say " a christian (etc.) did so and so"

funny <admin-profanity filter activated> i say

I have been saying this for ages....how comes they don't say christian person? Why is it that 'asian', 'indian' words get used? Wats the big deal with just saying a person...

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I reckon the person who was innocent in all of this was the murdered wife. Imagine she was only 17, in an unknown country, in an unknown place. She probably knew about the other kuri but has no choice but to put up with it. She gotgnant and the last thing she would have expected is for her and her baby to be knived!! I cannot even beging to think what her real parents, siblings etc are going through.

[AAA]

Imagine the state of mind Harominder must have been in.

This Muslim guy has strung along this girl for years. Messed with her mind so much, put so much doubt into her mind that she's ready to reject everything, including her own family and religion.

He's spent ages grooming her to believe that NOTHING else matters apart from him.

It's not a huge jump then, for a fragile mind, to turn murderous is it?

Wouldn't she have been mentally torturing her own parents by converting to islam? If that didn't matter to her then why would this poor pregnant girl?

This guy created this monster and it's his innocent wife and baby that have suffered as a consequence.

He should be locked up too but he'll probably just turn to the next stupid Sikh girl who will fall for his crap and believe that he's 'different'

If there was any justice in this world then she would have used that knife to castrate him.

[sherlsurj]

exactly. that guy has played two women off agaisnt each other and both got punished. one with death and the other with a prison sentence.

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I disagree cos it says in the article he had dumped her....loadsa ppl on the planet are dumped but they all don't kill. Therefore as harsh as it sounds Harominder is in the plain wrong. Its her fault she could not control her emotions not the guys.

[sherlsurj]

true. anyway nothing can condone the killing of a pregnant woman/girl. yoyu seriously have to have problems to do something so disgusting!