By Vernon Matters Staff

UPDATE: Suspect enters guilty plea in 1986 murder case; receives sentence

Mar 5, 2020 | 10:33 AM

UPDATE

A suspect in a Vernon murder case from 1986 has been sentenced after pleading guilty to a lessor charge connected to the death of his wife.

Paramjit Singh Bogarh plead guilty in B.C. Supreme Court in Kelowna to being an accessory after the fact, with the judge accepting the joint Crown and defence submission for a five year prison sentence, with credit for three years already served, meaning another two years behind bars.

Bogarh was set to go on trial this week for the first-degree murder of his wife, Saminder Bogarh, on New Year’s Eve 1986, before the plea deal was reached.

As part of the accessory charge, Bogarh admitted to giving misleading statements to police that helped his brother, Narinder Singh Bogarh, escape after Narinder allegedly killed the 26-year-old victim.

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Narinder Bogarh faces the same charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, and B.C. legal officials have been trying to get him extradited from India to Canada to face the charges.

Paramjit was extradited from the United States to Canada in 2018 to face the Vernon charges.

RCMP said at the time in 1986, the 26-year-old victim suffered several stab wounds and was found in the bathroom of their Vernon home.

Paramjit Bogarh was charged with second-degree murder at the time, but the Crown stayed the charge a few days later which police said was due to a lack of evidence.

by Vernon Matters Staff

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