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Britain's Most Evil Killers - Season 10 Episode 1
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02:59By using this rare toxin, had Lakvya Singh gambled on getting away with murder?
03:06Until relatively recently, in the last 30 years, you couldn't analyse for it
03:13So previously we were very much dependent on one, a high concentration being present
03:21Real knowledge that it was that particular one, so you knew what you were looking for when you started out
03:29So those advances enable us now to identify toxins at a much, much lower concentration
03:37Lakvya Singh had woven what must have seemed like an ingenious plot
03:44She'd not reckoned on the tenacity of London's homicide detectives
03:49This killer's story begins in the Punjab region of north-western India in October 1964
03:59We don't know a lot about her background, she came to this country
04:04And in July 1985, Lakvya had an arranged marriage and she and her husband lived in Southall
04:12Sing worked for a catering company in Heathrow, which was very close to Southall and was a major local business
04:23The couple had three children together, but I don't think it was a particularly happy marriage
04:32Sing was caring for her husband because he had cancer
04:37And on occasions he actually went to India for treatment
04:40In 1993, a new lodger brought some light into 28-year-old Lakvya Singh's otherwise difficult life
04:53Lakvya Singh was known as Lucky, that was his nickname
04:57His sister was married to Singh's brother
05:01Lucky Cheema arrived in England in his early 20s
05:07At that point he was already married
05:09His marriage had failed and so suddenly he needed somewhere to stay
05:14And he moved in with Lakvya Singh and her husband as their tenant, as a lodger in their house in Southall
05:23Lucky worked for Rent-A-Kill and he was described as a model work colleague
05:31His colleagues thought he was always smiling, he was well known, he was a popular bloke to work with
05:3723-year-old Lucky Cheema's charms were not lost on his new landlady, Lakvya Singh
05:44From the moment he arrived, our understanding was that he formed a sexual relationship with Singh
05:52And that carried on for at least 15 years
05:54He was quite charming, quite charismatic, she was probably quite vulnerable in a lot of ways
06:04You could see how that situation might happen
06:07Clearly, Lakvya had very, very strong feelings for Lucky
06:14And I think Lucky had probably convinced her that they would probably have a future together
06:21It was a dangerous game to play in the close-knit West London community
06:29I'm sure Singh felt trapped in this unhappy marriage with her husband
06:34When Lucky was really the light of her life and really the only person she really loved
06:40Around 2006, Lucky moved into his own home six miles from Southall
06:51He bought a four-bedroom property in Feltham
06:55He occupied the ground floor of that house and rented out the other rooms, the upstairs rooms to tenants
07:04And they had shared facilities, so they all shared the facilities of the kitchen
07:10Lucky's tenants soon became familiar with his attentive friend, Lakvya Singh
07:18To all intents and purposes, it was like as if they were married
07:23Because she would turn up and do all of the cooking and the washing and the tidying up
07:26And I suspect that when she did that at Lucky's home, she'd go and do the same thing at her home
07:31Lucky sent to Lakvya on her birthday in October 2008
07:40You be my loved and I will give you all my love
07:43The affair had, by this time, become an open secret among Lakvya Singh
07:51And Lucky Chima's loved ones
07:54It was a very unhappy relationship culturally, both for her family and for his family
08:02In the autumn of 2008, 15 years into their illicit affair
08:08This uneasy equilibrium was shattered when 39-year-old Lucky began looking to the future
08:16On the 18th of October 2008, Lucky Chima met a young woman at a local Sikh temple in Southall
08:22Gurjit had come to the United Kingdom in 2008
08:28She came here illegally, got a false passport
08:32Gurjit was much younger than Lucky, she was 21 years old
08:37She was introduced to Lucky with a view to them being married
08:48And they plainly got on
08:55They came quickly, I believe, to love each other
09:03They appeared very happy together
09:04News of the courting couple's plans came as a shock to Lakvya Singh
09:12By the 2nd of November 2008, so really just within a few weeks of their first meeting
09:18Their engagement was announced
09:21Lucky told Singh that he wanted to start a relationship with someone else and have children
09:29Singh reacted with absolute fury
09:33To this devastating blow to her plans
09:37She started texting Lucky with threatening messages
09:40Saying that she was going to come and burn his house down
09:44She was absolutely furious by what she clearly saw was absolute betrayal
09:50She was obviously devastated, angry, hurt
09:55It was a sort of mixture of pleading with him to come back
09:58And being abusive to him around, how could you treat me like this?
10:03Lucky Chima did not make a clean break with his long-term lover
10:07Lucky, in fact, had kept Singh's hopes up
10:11He even sent her a text saying, I live for the moment where you can see each other in a dream
10:16While telling Gurjeet that his affair with Singh had been over for years
10:22Lucky continued to see his secret lover
10:26Even though he was saying he wanted to form a relationship with Gurjeet
10:29He was still having a sexual relationship with Singh at the same time
10:33And he was expressing his love for her and that the two of them would always be together
10:37In November 2008, as Lucky and Gurjeet made plans
10:44Lakvir Singh attended a family event in India
10:48There she found a solution to her situation
10:52One that she hoped would blow any wedding plans
10:55Out of the water
10:57In late November 2008, 44-year-old Lakvir Singh
11:13Returned to the UK from India
11:16Determined to drive a wedge between 39-year-old Lucky Chima
11:20And his new fiancée, Gurjeet
11:22Singh was saying to him, look, you don't really want to be going out with this woman
11:27Because she's illegal in the country
11:30And all she basically wants is a passport
11:32Singh's attempts to sour the relationship fell on deaf ears
11:38In early December, Gurjeet and Lucky give details of when they're going to get married
11:45The following February
11:47To add insult to injury, Lucky and Gurjeet decided to get married on Valentine's Day 2009
11:59Which simply rubbed salt into the wounds of Lakvir Singh
12:04A few days after announcing their wedding plans, Lucky fell gravely ill
12:15Lucky had had a period of sickness
12:19That had come on quite quickly
12:23Hadn't been fully diagnosed
12:26But he had had several days of really quite extreme
12:31What was probably sort of put down to sort of either food poisoning
12:35Or sort of gastroenteritis
12:36Singh attends almost every day to visit him in hospital
12:42And during that time, she's still trying to convince him
12:45That he shouldn't get married to Gurjeet
12:48I think Gurjeet realised that the relationship with Singh was still continuing
12:55So she took Singh aside to try and warn her off
13:00And basically told her, look, forget it, he's my man now
13:04In response, Singh dropped a bombshell that she hoped might put 21-year-old Gurjeet off for good
13:15She told Gurjeet she'd become pregnant on at least two occasions
13:20And Lucky apparently wanted her to have abortions
13:24She was trying everything to claw the relationship back
13:28Panicking in this state of chaos
13:30She even threw in threats, serious threats
13:37Threats of arson, threats of harm to him
13:40But this isn't, this is not unusual in a situation like this
13:45Where the person is actually escalating and becoming more and more dangerous
13:51Lucky spent two or three days in hospital feeling pretty ill
13:55But thought perhaps nothing of it at the time
13:58Perhaps food poisoning
14:00After he's released from hospital
14:05We know that this is almost close to Christmas
14:08And you'd have thought that he would be with Gurjeet during this period
14:11But completely the opposite
14:13He spends the entire Christmas with Singh
14:17It just goes to show you the level of control to some degree
14:20That Singh had over Lucky
14:22Despite his mixed messages, Lucky's wedding planning continued
14:27And in January 2009, Gurjeet started spending the odd night with him
14:33At his home in Feltham
14:35When you got to January 2009, his attitude to Latvia changed
14:41Notably, he stopped sleeping with her
14:44On the 27th of January, with less than three weeks to go until their marriage
14:54Lucky and Gurjeet shared a meal in the kitchen of Lucky's home
14:58Gurjeet and Lucky were discussing their wedding plans
15:06But the couple would never get to share their vows
15:09Just a few hours later, Gurjeet was seriously ill
15:13And Lucky Chima was dead
15:16Lucky had presented himself at the hospital along with Gurjeet
15:20Gurjeet was immediately put into an induced coma
15:25Because she was so ill
15:26The doctors tried to revive Lucky
15:30But he died at about half past two in the morning
15:33Medics had no idea what had struck down the previously healthy couple
15:39But in his final breaths, Lucky Chima had given them a major clue
15:44In the hour that he was alive
15:47Between arriving at the hospital and he's finally dying
15:50Lucky was able to whisper to doctors
15:53It was my ex-girlfriend
15:55So on the 28th of January, 2009
16:05The police were alerted by Middlesex Hospital
16:09Of a very suspicious incident
16:12Whereby a relatively healthy male had died
16:15With very shocking and sudden symptoms
16:19DCI Howard Groves led the Metropolitan Police Homicide
16:25Team that took the call from West Middlesex Hospital
16:28My team at that point decided that we would treat it as a murder investigation
16:33And then that would allow us to establish the facts
16:37The homicide command would have sent an initial response team
16:45To attend the hospital
16:46Obviously to speak to the doctors concerned
16:49The sister and nephews of the deceased
16:52Had actually taken him to hospital
16:54So they were key witnesses
16:56Who could explain to the hospital and us
16:59Exactly what had been happening
17:01The team also reviewed a 999 call
17:05Made by Lucky Chima
17:06The previous evening
17:08Okay, is your girlfriend conscious?
17:11Yes
17:12Is she awake?
17:14Yes, same like me
17:16But we are very burdened because
17:20Okay, so what makes you think
17:21Somebody poisoned your food?
17:25Because
17:25She's on my ex-girlfriend
17:28She came to the lake in the water
17:29You think your ex-girlfriend's done it?
17:34Yes
17:35Detectives looked into the meal
17:44The couple had been sharing
17:45Shortly before Lucky made the call
17:48It was actually a curry that Gurji had made
17:54And they'd eaten that meal the night before
17:58Where there was quite a significant amount of leftovers
18:01Which had been put into a Tupperware pot
18:03And which they had put on Lucky's shelf in the fridge
18:07Gurji hadn't been well
18:12And she didn't really want to eat very much
18:14Lucky, on the other hand, had been working hard
18:16And was ravenous
18:17He ate two portions of the curry
18:22While she ate very little
18:24It was a decision that was to cost him his life
18:27About an hour, hour and a half
18:33After eating their dinner
18:35He started feeling extremely unwell
18:38He had violent vomiting
18:42He described how his sight was going
18:45Everything became dark
18:46He couldn't feel his hands, his legs
18:49He said he couldn't even feel his tongue
18:51When he was holding it
18:52And he couldn't stand up straight
18:55He had to support himself
18:56This was very, very frightening
18:59He deteriorated quickly
19:03And was in very significant pain
19:07Gurji decided that she was going to have a shower
19:11And by the time she came back down
19:14His condition had worsened
19:17And now she was beginning to feel similar symptoms
19:20They called 999
19:24The operator speaks to Lucky
19:27And asks whether or not he had got food poisoning
19:30And he said, no, I have been poisoned
19:32Someone put poison in our food
19:35Why would someone put poison in your food?
19:42Clearly he was acutely aware
19:45That something quite serious
19:47Had probably happened to both of them
19:49He also phoned his sister
19:52Who lived very close by
19:54Because he was really panicking
19:57And the family came around
20:01In fact, before the emergency services
20:03Were due to be there
20:05He was carried out
20:08And it was him being taken to a car
20:10Of a nephew
20:11That was just caught on CCTV
20:14He was obviously in really significant
20:19In significant distress
20:19In very significant pain
20:22In and out of consciousness
20:24Goujit was also ill
20:27She herself has described
20:29How she started
20:30Her eyes started to go completely
20:32Her tummy was hurting
20:34She couldn't stand up properly
20:36And she too was bundled into the car
20:38To take her off to hospital
20:40And she described how
20:43She was trying to reach out her hand
20:45To hold Lucky's hand
20:46And she couldn't move her hands
20:48Because of the paralysis
20:49The car taking Lucky
20:54Screeched to a halt outside
20:56West Middlesex Hospital
20:57And Lucky was rushed inside
20:59But there was nothing they can do
21:02And within an hour
21:05Of arriving at the hospital
21:06Lucky was dead
21:09Goujit by now
21:10Was also in a very, very poorly condition
21:14And she was actually placed into a coma
21:17With one patient dead
21:22And another's life in the balance
21:24Medics faced a race against time
21:26To discover what deadly illness
21:29Had befallen the betrothed couple
21:31She may have lost her fiancé
21:33But could Goujit's life
21:35Be saved?
21:44On the 28th of January 2009
21:50The Met Police's homicide unit
21:53Launched an investigation
21:54Into the highly unusual death
21:57Of Lakvinda Lucky Chima
21:58Who died in agony
22:00At a West London hospital
22:02When Lucky arrived at the hospital
22:06He was adamant that he had been poisoned
22:08I took the view
22:11That we had to treat it
22:13As if it was a poisoning
22:14We couldn't say to ourselves
22:16We'll wait for the post-mortem
22:18And see what happens next
22:19We rarely dealt with cases of poisoning
22:25Our general day-to-day murders
22:28Would be shootings, stabbings
22:31Gangland type killings
22:33So this really stood out
22:35As an unusual case
22:37And certainly one that I had never dealt with
22:40In the past
22:40Unused to treating poisoning
22:43Of this intensity
22:44Medics wondered if they were dealing
22:46With some kind of biological
22:48Or chemical weapon
22:50There were a lot of concerns
22:53That there was potentially
22:54Cyanide poisoning involved
22:56So it was treated incredibly seriously
22:59And in terms of the deceased body
23:01That was put into a sealed room
23:03And everyone had to wear
23:05Specialist protective equipment
23:07Specialist breathing equipment
23:09Because obviously if it had been cyanide
23:11That is incredibly, incredibly dangerous
23:14While murder was one scenario
23:21For detectives to consider
23:23They also had to find out
23:25If there was another explanation
23:27Contamination in the food chain
23:29That could have caused Lucky's death
23:31And which might strike another innocent victim
23:34At any moment
23:35We decided to contact the Department of Environmental
23:39Food and Rural Affairs
23:41DEFRA
23:42Because they have the knowledge and expertise
23:46To look at food and its production
23:48And they said to us that they didn't have any records
23:51Of anyone presenting themselves to the hospitals
23:55Throughout the UK
23:56In the last 72 hours
23:58With any similar symptoms
23:59With the ball back in their court
24:03The police face the urgent challenge
24:06Of identifying what the poison could be
24:08As Gajit continued fighting for her life
24:12Knowledge of the substance
24:13Could help the medics trying to save her
24:16The agency that we were advised to contact
24:20Was the Health Protection Agency
24:21They had the necessary expertise
24:24To be able to attend Lucky's home
24:27In hazmat suits
24:28And they retrieved the Tupperware
24:31That the remains of some of the meal
24:33That was consumed
24:34While analysis began on the remnants of the curry
24:38Police officers had to act on Lucky Cheema's suspicions
24:42About his former lover, Lakvir Singh
24:45On Wednesday the 28th, Singh was arrested
24:48She was arrested
24:50On suspicion of the murder of Lucky
24:53And also at that point
24:55The attempted murder of Gajit
24:57When the police arrived at Singh's house
25:01Far from being angry or involved
25:05Or emotional
25:06She was very calm and collected
25:09Made out that she had no idea
25:11What they were there for
25:12Clearly by this stage
25:15Singh knew that Lucky was dead
25:18This was the man she had loved
25:21The one love in her life
25:23And had been in a relationship for 16 years
25:26And here she was
25:28Giving a very calm, composed response
25:31To the arrival of the police
25:32And for the fact that she was being arrested
25:34Lakvir Singh was not the only person of interest for police
25:42Another relative, a man with ties to both Singh and Lucky
25:46Was also taken in for questioning
25:49On the day of the poisoning of Gajit and Lucky
25:54A family member had actually attended Lucky's address
26:00And spoken to Gajit
26:02He had threatened Lucky that very day
26:08The shame he was bringing on the wider family
26:12But even as police questioned this man
26:16Their colleagues were uncovering evidence
26:18That he was not the likely assailant
26:21At the time of Singh's arrest
26:24A search was conducted at her address
26:26And the officers recovered from a coat
26:29That she had hanging over the banister
26:31A brown substance
26:32And not only did they find a brown substance
26:36In a plastic bag
26:37They also found something similar
26:39In a handbag
26:39Suspecting this unknown substance
26:42Could be linked with Lucky's death
26:44And Gajit's perilous condition
26:46It was imperative detectives find out what it was
26:51The first thing that the police did
26:54Was to confront Singh and say
26:56What is this brown powder?
26:58And she acted completely nonchalantly
27:00And said, oh, that's nothing
27:02That's a bit of herbal stuff that I have for a neck rash
27:04My colleagues were not happy with that
27:09And actually explained
27:10And said, look, someone has died
27:11And there's someone very seriously ill in hospital
27:14If the doctors knew exactly what was in that bag
27:20Then they could have come up with a solution
27:22As to how they were going to treat Gajit
27:24We knew more than likely it was a poison
27:29But there were hundreds and thousands of different poisons
27:31But she wouldn't tell us exactly what it was
27:34It's not clear whether Singh intended Gajit to die as well
27:40And it's quite possible that she saw her as irrelevant
27:44And that if she does, it's all good
27:46If she doesn't, it doesn't matter
27:48Because he'll be dead anyway
27:49And she can't have him
27:50Still none the wiser
27:56Investigators hope Lucky Cheema's post-mortem
27:59Might reveal some answers about what had killed him
28:03I remember personally being at the post-mortem
28:06That was conducted by a very eminent pathologist
28:09And I remember that he received sort of sealed instructions
28:14I think from something like Portland Down
28:16Of how to deal with the potential cyanide poisoning
28:20And we all had to wear sort of chemical protective overalls
28:25Breathing apparatus
28:26It's the only time that I've ever had to do that at a post-mortem
28:30There were multiple samples taken from Lucky's body
28:35And that would have included, you know, stomach contents
28:38Blood, urine, hair
28:40You know, everything that could possibly be tested
28:44To give an indication of what he had ingested
28:48And what had caused his death
28:50The post-mortem was inconclusive
28:52While detectives awaited the results of toxicology tests
28:57On Lucky's blood and stomach contents
28:59Time was running out to hold Lakvir Singh
29:03On suspicion of Lucky's murder
29:05They needed to establish a link
29:08Between the spurned lover
29:09And Lucky's sudden illness
29:11The police were able to put together
29:14Some of the events leading up to his death
29:17The tenants living in Lucky's home
29:19Were key witnesses to the events of that day
29:23On the 27th of January
29:25Around about 10.30 in the morning
29:27Singh went to Lucky's house
29:30She knocked on the door
29:33And she was allowed entry by one of the other tenants
29:38Who lived in one of the upstairs bedrooms
29:40There was nothing unusual about this whatsoever
29:43She was a regular visitor to the house
29:47Gorgit was actually staying at Lucky's home at that point
29:52And she wasn't feeling well
29:54And had spent most of the day sleeping
29:56The tenants that were in the address
30:01Were all sitting in the kitchen chatting
30:03Singh went straight to the fridge
30:06Opened the door
30:07And with her back to them
30:08She took out an item from the fridge
30:11They couldn't see what she was doing
30:13She knew about Lucky's habits
30:18Whereabouts in the address he lived
30:21Which part of the refrigerator he used for his food
30:26She, of all people, would have known
30:31Where the curry to be consumed by him
30:34Was going to be in the fridge
30:36She then closed it up and put it back in the fridge
30:40Had a little chat with them and then left
30:43Now, for the tenants
30:45That didn't raise any alarms
30:47We know that when Lucky came home
30:51And he was told that she had turned up
30:53He actually did something which was quite strange
30:56He changed the locks on the back door and the front door
30:58Which would indicate he didn't want her there
31:01At that point, I think Lucky must have been feeling
31:05Actually very, very uneasy
31:08About the relationship and how it had broken down
31:12And how it was actually affecting Singh
31:14Having decided to get the locks changed
31:18He phoned Singh in a fury
31:20To demand an answer to
31:22What were you doing in my house?
31:26And she just told him
31:27We're coming to get you
31:28And me and five other men
31:31Which, of course, only added to the sense of fear
31:35And trepidation that Lucky had
31:37What on earth was Singh going to do next?
31:40Singh made some very serious threats
31:45And I think Lucky was probably stuck between
31:48Being really quite frightened of her
31:50And what she might do
31:53But also, how was he going to tell anyone?
31:57How was he actually going to deal with this?
32:01Detectives had quickly built a picture
32:03Of an obsessive, threatening ex
32:05Who'd been seen acting oddly in Lucky Chima's home
32:09The day he and Gajit mysteriously fell ill
32:12But they still didn't know for sure
32:15That they'd been poisoned
32:16Or indeed, what with?
32:19It was a circumstantial case
32:21We didn't have an eyewitness here
32:23After two days, Gajit began to show signs of recovery
32:28Her testimony would help police build
32:30A better picture of the toxic love triangle
32:33But could the police really prove beyond reasonable doubt
32:37That mother of three, Lakvir Singh
32:40Was a cold-blooded killer?
32:51In January 2009, detectives in West London
32:55Faced the uphill struggle
32:57Of proving that 44-year-old Lakvir Singh
33:01Had deliberately poisoned her former lover, Lucky Chima
33:04And his fiancée, Gajit
33:07By the 31st of January
33:16The detectives felt they had enough circumstantial evidence
33:19To charge Lakvir with the murder of Lucky
33:21And the attempted murder of Gajit
33:24But they still didn't know what precisely
33:26The poison was that she'd used
33:29They needed to work out what Lucky had been poisoned with
33:34To establish that link
33:37Between the substances they had found and the suspect
33:42Detectives reached out to a poisons expert
33:48To find out what substance could have caused
33:51Lucky's devastating symptoms
33:54The poisons experts explained to the detectives
33:58Finally
33:59That it was likely that Lucky and Gajit
34:02Had been poisoned with aconite
34:04Sometimes known as wolf's bane
34:06The queen of poisons
34:07It's an exceptionally unusual poison in this country
34:12The last case of aconite poisoning was in 1882
34:17Never since
34:18The police turned to Professor Monique Simmons
34:22A researcher and botanist
34:24With expertise in identifying plant compounds
34:28They sometimes come to Kew because of the collections at Kew
34:32The specimen, living specimens we have
34:35But also the estimated 8 million in our herbarium collection
34:38And we were aware that it could be therefore aconitum because of the symptoms
34:45So we asked to hear a little bit more about the symptoms
34:48Again, we're not medics
34:49But we have some of that knowledge about what potentially the toxins can be
34:54Like an item
34:55It has an effect on the organs breaking down
34:58The victim is very much, you know, aware of what is happening
35:02They can't breathe
35:03And things like that
35:04Professor Simmons was given samples of all of the evidence the police had gathered
35:10If you look then at the samples we've been given
35:15Some material that has come from Mrs. Singh's pocket
35:19Some from the remains of the curry, et cetera
35:25And then from samples from the victim's stomach and blood
35:31We make an extract
35:34So now we've got samples that we can inject into the equipment that we use
35:41And that will help analyse that extract
35:49So we get what we term kind of a chemical fingerprint
35:53It's not the same as a DNA fingerprint
35:55But in our terms it enables us to identify the different compounds
36:00That are in that extract that we've made
36:03Analysis of Lucky's blood and stomach contents
36:08Found that not only was it chemically the same as the toxins found in the samples of leftover curry in his fridge
36:15It was also the same as the powder found in Lakvir Singh's handbag and coat pocket
36:21But what was puzzling was that it didn't match the profile of aconite commonly found in the UK
36:28And then that's where we hear a little bit more about the case of this is a lady who went to India
36:34Okay, right, you think, let's look at a species then, Ferox from India
36:40And then you get slightly different chemistry
36:43And then, wow, the chemistry meets what we would expect
36:48Professor Simmons was able to say conclusively that the substance was a match for Indian aconite
37:00Pieces of the jigsaw were finally falling into place in the case against Lakvir Singh
37:06Who'd visited her native India around the time Lucky's engagement was announced
37:12It was several weeks before the incident that led to death
37:17Where exactly she went, we don't know
37:20But the fact is there are marketplaces in that part of India
37:24In northern India, just south of the Himalayas
37:27Where you can buy almost anything
37:30So we took the view from an evidential standpoint
37:34That we say that that's where she got the item from
37:37Lucky had been hospitalised with a stomach complaint
37:43Just days after Singh had returned
37:45But on that occasion, he'd pulled through
37:48Detectives now suspected this had been Singh's first attempt on Lucky's life
37:54As her trial date approached, Lakvir Singh continued to deny the charges against her
38:01Twelve months after Lucky's death, the trial opened at the Old Bailey in January 2010
38:08Once I found out the background to this case
38:12Then this was a date in my diary that was ringed in red
38:16This was going to be a huge case
38:18Singh faced charges of murdering Lucky
38:23As well as attempting to murder Gajit
38:26She also faced an attempted murder charge
38:29For the incident where Lucky had fallen ill a month or so before he died
38:34The opening statement, opening speech of a prosecutor
38:40Is a very important tool in a way
38:43Because it's how the jury first get introduced to the case
38:47In a way, I had an advantage
38:49Because it was a fascinating case
38:52I was able to present the reality of a woman who just couldn't take it, that her lover, who she was still in love with or maybe even obsessed by, had moved from his affections from her to this younger woman and she was jealous and obsessively jealous.
39:11There was an element of a physical relationship continuing
39:23But she could not face the fact of the impending marriage
39:31She gathered in India, she gathered in India the wherewithal in preparation to kill her former lover
39:41Edward Brown KC told the jury about Lucky's mysterious illness in December 2008
39:48His illness and his visit to the hospital were after the defendant, Mrs. Singh, had returned from India
39:57With Lucky having survived a first attempt on his life, the prosecution's case was that in late January 2009, Lakvir Singh laced the curry in his fridge with a much stronger dose of poison, enough to end his life
40:13Gurdjit, with the assistance of an interpreter, gave her account of what happened the other day in question
40:20The Old Bailey is a very intimidating place to be
40:24And poor Gurdjit was there, she'd barely been in this country more than a year or so
40:29She was giving evidence about the murder of her fiancé, the person she planned to spend the rest of her life with
40:36She couldn't speak the language, she looked very alone and very, very vulnerable
40:41We know that one of the tenants also gave evidence of Singh retrieving the Tupperware with the food content in there
40:49And there were specialists who then gave evidence in relation to aconite and the symptoms for being poisoned
40:57Sitting silently in court, occasionally tearful, Lakvir Singh, through her lawyer, denied the charges against her
41:05Part of Lakvir's defence when she comes to trial is that the actual murder wasn't committed by her
41:19But was committed by a relative of both she and Lucky
41:22Gurdjit confirmed on the witness stand that this man had threatened Lucky on the day he died
41:28Lakvir also maintained in her own defence that she couldn't possibly have killed him
41:33Because she loved him
41:38When the jury retired to consider their verdict after the five-week trial
41:43They deliberated for no fewer than four days
41:47Really quite a long time
41:53When the jury file back into court with their verdicts, it's always a very, very tense moment
41:59Because literally nobody apart from those 12 people know what the verdict's going to be
42:06The jury convicted Mrs. Singh of murder of Lucky
42:12They were not sure that Mrs. Singh intended to kill Gurdjit
42:16But they convicted her of causing her GBH
42:21They acquitted her of the earlier poisoning as we presented it
42:26Maybe because the scientific evidence wasn't there
42:29Singh looked mousy, she looked very sort of inward
42:35She looked a tiny figure between prison officers
42:40She looked beaten, she looked subdued
42:42I think she knew almost from the start that she was going to be convicted
42:46And that she would have to live with what she's done for the rest of her life
42:48Lakvir Singh was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 23 years in prison
43:00I recall the judge stating that she hadn't just acted in an explosive act of revenge
43:07It was a very cold and calculated murder
43:10I think she probably was, generally speaking, quite a cold person, quite an entitled person
43:21And somebody who felt that she had some kind of right to control her partners
43:28UK women's rights charities have found that more than half of women who kill their partner
43:39Do so in response to domestic violence or abuse
43:43Lakvir Singh falls into a rare category of women who plan a homicide for another reason entirely
43:51In her case, rageful revenge
43:53There's this anger and outrage at the injustice of you deciding to leave me
44:02And I do think that in this case, Singh did think she'd suffered an injustice
44:08She thought Lucky was going to be with her forever
44:10And it was terrible that he suddenly decided to go off and get engaged
44:16I didn't see a single trace of remorse
44:20It's virtually impossible to imagine that she would have any remorse
44:25Because this was a planned operation
44:28And it achieved exactly what she wanted
44:31Which was the agonising death of her former lover
44:41When Lakvir Singh's secret lover made plans for a future with someone else
44:46It was more than she could bear
44:51Unwilling to see Lucky Chima find happiness and a family with his new fiancée
44:57Singh set out to end his life, grievously harming Gurjeet in the process
45:05For a murder meticulously planned and ruthlessly executed
45:09Lakvir Singh will always be remembered as one of Britain's most evil killers
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