The estranged husband who pleaded guilty to killing his 24-year-old wife in a Surrey newspaper office has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 16 years.
Manmeet Singh was accused of walking into the office of Sach Di Awaaz, a Punjabi-language newspaper, and repeatedly stabbing his wife Ravinder Kaur Bhangu in July 2011.
Police said by the time they found her, Bhangu was dead from multiple stab wounds.
A colleague of Bhangu’s was also injured in the attack while trying to intervene.
Singh later pleaded guilty to his wife’s second-degree murder.
Friends of Bhangu’s said she had left Singh and was living with her aunt in the months leading up to her attack.
Coworkers told CTV News the 24-year-old had moved to Canada from India about two years before, around the time she and her husband married each other.
She worked as an administrative assistant at the free weekly bilingual English and Punjabi newspaper.
With files from CTV British Columbia’s Rob Brown
