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In a horrific act of revenge, a 21-year-old Indian nursing student was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend from India, driven 650km and buried alive in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia state, a court has heard.
Yasmin Kaur of Adelaide City was murdered by Tarikot Singh in March 2021, a month after he was reported to the police for stalking.
Kaur was abducted from her workplace on March 5, 2021, and driven more than 400 miles (644 km) while tied with cable ties to the trunk of a car Singh had borrowed from a flatmate, news.com.au and other websites reported. Wednesday.
He buried Kaur in a shallow grave after making “superficial” cuts to her throat which were insufficient to kill her and was aware of her surroundings when she died sometime on March 6.
Singh pleaded guilty to the murder, but the gruesome details of his crime came to light during the sentencing presentation in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Prosecutor Carmen Mateo said the murder was “ineffective” and that Kaur “made her suffer”.
“She must have been consciously experiencing what can only be described as the sheer horror of breathing in the soil and being swallowed up by it and dying in this way,” Matteo said.
Kaur’s family, including her mother, were in court hearing sentencing briefs.
The court heard that Singh planned the murder because he could not get over the breakdown of their relationship.
“The manner in which Kaur was killed involves, really, an uncommon level of cruelty,” said Mathieu.
“It is not known when her throat was cut, it is not known when or how she was entered or placed in this burial tomb, nor is it known when this was dug, other than the prosecution saying it had to happen while she was still alive and preparing for her burial.
“(It was) a killing committed as an act of revenge or an act of revenge,” she said.
Singh wrote several letters to Kaur in the lead up to her death which she never ended up sending.
One message said, “Your bad luck I’m still alive, cheap, wait and watch, you’ll get the answer, everybody’s going to get the answer.”
Singh initially denied the murder, saying Kaur had committed suicide and that he had buried the body, but pleaded guilty before he went to trial earlier this year.
Officers took her to her burial site where they found Kaur’s shoes, eyeglasses, and business name badge in the trash, along with her coiled cable ties.
He was caught on CCTV hours before the murder at Bunnings in Mile End buying gloves, wire ties and a shovel.
He faces a mandatory life sentence, with the court imposing a non-parole period next month.
His lawyer wants to give him a more merciful sentence, in part because they called it a “crime of passion.”
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