The court has heard that 46-year-old Jaipreet Singh Toor stabbed his 79-year-old father Harsewak Toor outside his home after the elderly man denied him $20.
KAMLOOPS — An Indo-Canadian man who stabbed his elderly father 31 times last March pleaded guilty at the B.C. Supreme Court and the presiding judge has accepted the man’s guilty plea to second-degree murder.
The court has heard that 46-year-old Jaipreet Singh Toor stabbed his 79-year-old father Harsewak Toor outside his home after the elderly man denied him $20, reported Canadian Press.
The elderly Harsewak Toor was a well liked figure who operated an electronics repair shop situated in the rear side of Surrey’s Khalsa Business Centre. Many Facebook readers who had known him as “uncle” paid their tributes to the murdered man after the LINK published the story online on Wednesday.
Crown prosecutor Chris Balison says Toor told a 911 operator that he attacked his father because he was angry and he hated the man.
Justice Sheri Donegan says Toor’s guilty plea is voluntary and informed, and there is nothing to indicate that the man suffered from a mental health condition at the time of the stabbing.
Balison is seeking a life sentence without parole eligibility for 12 to 14 years.
Toor, who is representing himself, has asked for parole eligibility after 10 years.
Courtesy Canadian Press
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