Ravinder Singh Binning, who has a history of driving charges, including speeding, violating the conditions of his licence and failing to provide a breath sample, is charged with dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of a crash for the collision that killed 61-year-old Dilbag Badh and his wife Baskshish, 60.
SURREY – The family of an Indo-Canadian couple killed in a hit-and-run crash in 2008 angrily confronted the man accused in their death as he appeared in a courtroom to face a separate set of driving charges.
“Why don’t you talk? Be a man!” Varinder Badh shouted at 29-year-old Ravinder Singh Binning in the hallway, calling him a “coward” and an “asshole.”
“It is very difficult for us to be here,” said Varinder, who was accompanied by many family members. “It resurfaces a lot of emotion.”
Binning, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday to impaired driving, failing to stop at the scene of a crash and obstructing a police officer in relation to a 2009 incident.
He is also charged with dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of a crash for the collision that killed 61-year-old Dilbag Badh and his wife Baskshish, 60, as they sat in a family member’s car on the way home from their daughter Varinder’s engagement party.
Varinder, who was injured in the crash, was among a crowd of relatives who approached Binning in the hallway at Surrey provincial court and shouted epithets at him. Family members called him a “coward.”
Outside the court, Varinder told CTV News that she “got a little angry” when she came face-to-face with the man accused of killing her parents.
“The holiday season is upon us and everybody is celebrating with their families. We’re of course missing our mom and dad. Binning has never spoken with us, never made eye contact with us, never apologized,” she said.
But she added that she was pleased to see Binning plead guilty to the 2009 charges.
“Finally he’s admitted to some guilt, to negligence,” she said. “His admission of guilt is showing that in fact he is now acknowledging that he is a repeat offender.”
Binning has a history of driving charges, including speeding, violating the conditions of his licence and failing to provide a breath sample.
Varinder described him as someone who slipped through the cracks of the justice system and should have lost his licence before the collision that killed her parents.
“I want Binning to acknowledge that he was at fault, admit that he was involved. And be accountable, be responsible,” she said.
The Badhs were sitting in the back of a relative’s BMW in July 2008 when the car was rear-ended by a speeding white Acura. The force of the collision pushed the vehicle into a power pole.
The couple died at the scene and Varinder, who was sitting in the front seat, was seriously injured.
Since the crash, the grieving family has lobbied the provincial and federal governments to add vehicular homicide to the Criminal Code.
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