Sydney, June 8 (ANI): A six-year jail sentence awarded to an Indian-origin man in Sydney has sparked off calls from crime victim advocates, the victim's family and a state government MP for review of the defence of provocation.
According to Sydney Morning Herald, Chamanjot Singh had left his wife, Manpreet Kaur, bleeding to death from eight wounds after slitting her throat with a box cutter in December 2009.
Last month, Singh was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder after a jury accepted his claim that a stream of verbal abuse had provoked him to kill his wife, including an alleged threat that she would have him deported.
Justice Peter McClellan sentenced Singh, 24, to a minimum six years' jail for the 'ferocious attack', describing him as an 'immature individual ... .who was caught up in a situation that he was unable to handle".
However, Kaur's sister, Jaspreet Kaur, said her family had not been given justice and expressed disgust at the laws that allowed such a sentence to be given.
"She had more than 22 cuts on her body. If you lose your self-control [because of provocation] you hit once or twice, not 22 times. She was trying to defend herself. How can you say this is manslaughter?" Kaur said, crying.
The Attorney General, Greg Smith, however, declined to comment on the case. (ANI)
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