The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said 36-year-old Randeep Singh Match pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter in January after being charged nearly four years earlier with Dhaliwal’s murder. Match was initially charged with second degree murder. Match will return to court next month for sentencing.
SURREY – An Indo-Canadian man from Abbotsford has pleaded guilty to a manslaughter in the death in 2014 of Tarsem Dhaliwal.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said36-year-old Randeep Singh Match will return to court next month for sentencing.
IHIT Cpl. Frank Jang said Match pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter in January after being charged nearly four years earlier with Dhaliwal’s murder. Match was initially charged with second degree murder.
The victim was last seen on Jan. 17, 2014, leaving his Surrey home to meet a friend.
Surrey RCMP found his body inside his car four days later and Match was charged several months later.
Jang says the guilty plea in the homicide investigation speaks to the efforts and dedication by police investigators involved in the case.
“Integrated Investigation Homicide Team investigators, in partnership with the Surrey RCMP, worked tirelessly to secure all of the evidence relevant to this case,” Jang said. “A guilty plea, in any homicide investigation, speaks to the efforts and dedication by all involved.”
