Sikh student 'stabbed lover's Muslim wife to death'

LONDON: A 23-year-old Sikh woman stabbed her Muslim lover's wife to death as she was carrying his baby, a British court has heard.

Dentistry student Harmohinder Kaur Sanghera allegedly knifed 11-week pregnant teenager Sana Ali of Pakistani origin nearly 42 times in her Greater Manchester residence in an act which was 'borne of jealousy and desperation'.

After the murder, Sanghera coolly called up her lover from his home, who was attending Friday prayers at a mosque at that time, and discussed flying out to Milan or Paris with him for a weekend away, according to the government prosecution.

"Sanghera had been having an affair with Sana's husband Sair Ali since July 2005. The relationship continued despite the Alis' arranged marriage in December last year, though Ali hid the fact from Sanghera for most of the time."

"The deeply personal element points unhappily and unequivocally, to the identity of the killer being the defendant. It is the Crown's case that this was no murder by a random psychopath. This was borne of jealousy and desperation."

"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," the 'Daily Mail' quoted Prosecutor Peter Wright as telling the Manchester Crown Court.

However, Sanghera has denied committing the murder which took place in May this year.

But, Wright insisted that the defendant was a highly intelligent woman who was forensically aware. "Even her bare footprints were also found on the work surface near the open kitchen window, suggesting that was the method she left the house."