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Indian sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of two countrymen in Australia | A 22-year-old Indian national has been sentenced to
life imprisonment with a 20-year minimum term for murdering two Indian brothers over a rental bond dispute in Perth. According to news.com.au, Jagdeep Singh
pleaded
guilty to murdering Navdeep Singh, 20, and Kawaldeep Singh, 19, on February 11
before the Supreme Court in Perth on Friday. Justice John McKechnie sentenced
him to life imprisonment on both murder counts to be served concurrently. With
a 20-year minimum term, Singh, from India's Punjab region, will not be eligible
for release until 2030. Singh had shared a two-bedroom flat in Morley in Perth's
north with the brothers and three others but had been told he had to move out
because the landlady considered it too crowded. The flatmates were all from the
Punjab, studying in Perth and working part-time jobs. The court heard that Singh,
who was doing a hospitality course, wanted 310 dollars in bond money from
Navdeep
Singh so he could arrange another flat. When he didn't get it he went to the flat
armed with a carving knife in the early hours of the morning and stabbed both
brothers, inflicting deep abdominal wounds that caused their deaths. Navdeep Singh
made it to a nearby St John Ambulance depot and was taken to Royal Perth
Hospital
for emergency surgery but later died. Singh drove off and later that day phoned
triple zero. He was eventually arrested and admitted to police he had stabbed
the brothers. Singh, dressed in jeans and a white shirt, sat quietly in the dock
throughout the proceedings.
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