Guest guest Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/index.html Father found guilty: Young couple's forbidden love ended in murder Gerry Bellett Vancouver Sun Saturday, March 05, 2005 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | NEXT >> CREDIT: Mark van Manen, Vancouver Sun McIsaac lovingly holds a photograph he took of Amandeep Atwal. Click here to find out more! " ... We shall cherish our moments together That way they'll last forever ... " Amandeep Atwal KITIMAT -- Death has guaranteed that the forbidden love between Amandeep Atwal, a beautiful Indo-Canadian teenager, and her lover McIsaac, will remain forever young. It was in this small town on the north-central coast that the two met and fell in love. But it all ended in tragedy when 17-year-old Amandeep was delivered to Langley Memorial Hospital by her father Rajinder one afternoon two years ago -- her bloodied body pierced with multiple stab wounds. He said she had killed herself. However, he was later charged with second-degree murder, and on Friday a B.C. Supreme Court jury in New Westminster deliberated just five hours before finding the 48-year-old man guilty. Atwal showed no emotion when the verdict was given, but his wife, comforted by family members, wept. His conviction carries a mandatory life sentence and the jury declined to make any recommendation for parole. Justice Catherine Wedge will decide parole eligibility -- a minimum of 10 years to a maximum of 25 years -- following two days of sentencing hearings that begin June 13. Defence counsel David Butcher said he plans to appeal the verdict. As for McIsaac, who is now 20, he vows death hasn't separated him from his former girlfriend. " There's one thing I'd want to say to her dad: if he was doing this to take her away from me, he's done the complete opposite. " He's made it so we will never be apart -- never. She will be with me for the rest of my life. " When he talks of their romance -- carried on in secret for two years they attended Mount Elizabeth Secondary -- his voice is devoid of any emotion. They met, he says, in a science class in January, 2001. She was 15, he a year older. " The moment I saw her I wanted to meet her. She just stood out from everyone else. There was something about her, I don't know, I was drawn to her like it was meant to be, like it was fate. " To break the ice he asked if he could borrow a pencil and she gave him one and he ended up nervously chewing the end of it. " I gave it back and she still has it to this day, " he said, unconscious of the slip in time. It would not be the only time he would give the impression that part of him still hasn't surrendered to the idea of never seeing her again. Their relationship would blossom until they became inseparable, and would turn friends, his family and some of their teachers into co- conspirators in an effort to keep their love secret from Amandeep's parents. She was forbidden to date so their love affair was destined to be clandestine. " Before me I don't think anyone had been so nice to her or treated her with so much respect. She treated me the same. Everything was unconditional. Nothing negative ever came out of her mouth. " She was the type of person who couldn't hurt anyone's feelings, and never talked behind anyone's back. " Ask anyone about her. They will all say how nice she was. She made it her job to help other people. I know there were kids at school that didn't have money for lunch and she'd go and buy them pizza. More... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2005 Report Share Posted March 6, 2005 advaitajnana , " Tony OClery " <aoclery> wrote: > > http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/index.html > Father found guilty: Young couple's forbidden love ended in murder > Namaste, This is symptomatic of a world upside down, where basic bhakt/religion or not real Bhakti rules and is applied thus. It happens in Northern Ireland, Muslim Countries, UK etc. In India high castes are even preventing aid getting to the untouchables. It is good to be born in a Religion but it is certainly bad to die in one............ONS...Tony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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