Mundill Mahil

London, Feb. 29: A 20-year-old medical student, who lured a former boyfriend to his death six months after he had attempted to rape her, will be locked up for six years.

Passing the sentence today, Judge Paul Worsley told Mundill Mahil: “You can be manipulative, vengeful and deceitful.”

Gagandip Singh, 21, was beaten up by Harvinder Shoker (also known as “Ravi”), who had become enamoured of Mundill, and an English schoolfriend, Darren Peters.

The two men, both 20, bundled the victim’s unconscious body into his Mercedes, drove it 60 miles from Brighton to Blackheath in south London and set it alight.

Mundill was cleared of murder but convicted of “grievous bodily harm with intent”.

Addressing Harvinder, the judge said: “Besotted by Mundill, you were prepared to do whatever she asked and more. One witness spoke of your boast that you were prepared to go to prison for 21 years for the sake of Mundill.”

If that is true, Harvinder will get his wish. Given a life sentence for the murder in February last year, he will remain in custody for 22 years before he is considered for parole.

Darren, sentenced to 12 years for manslaughter, had “callously” withdrawn £300 using Gagandip’s bank card for his travel expenses for going to Mundill’s student accommodation in Brighton that night.

The three will begin their incarceration in young offenders’ institutions.

Shocked by the young age of the people concerned, the case has become the talking point among Asians in Britain.

“This was a tragic case,” the judge observed. “A promising young man of 21 years was burned to death.”

Gagandip had set up a new local network, Sikh TV. What compounds the tragedy for Gagandip’s family is that his father had gone to India to investigate leakage of money from his packaging business and was murdered exactly a year earlier.

Gagandip “died in appalling circumstances,” the judge said to the girl. “He was lured by you, Mundill, to your student house in Brighton where you intended, as the jury have found, that he suffered really serious harm.”

After the attempted sex attack in August 2010, when Gagandip had tried to force his girlfriend to have sex with him and had left in tears after he was thwarted by her, the young man had bombarded Mundill with hundreds of text messages and phone calls but to no avail.

The judge went on: “You, Mundill, had decided that Gagandip Singh should be taught a lesson he would never forget.”

Mahil’s brother Harinder had apparently encouraged her to do something about the assault because she did not want to go to police.

Judge Worsley said: “Another brother of yours, Harinder, encouraged you to do something about what had happened to you. Otherwise nothing would have happened to Gagandip Singh. That should long remain on his conscience.”

The court heard a statement from Gagandip’s mother, Tajinder: “As a mother, I can’t even begin to find the words to express the great loss I feel. Since Gagan’s death I feel like my heart has completely broken.”

His sister Amandip, who saw her brother “burnt and unrecognisable lying in the funeral director’s”, said: “Since his death I have felt utterly adrift. I have no other siblings and the thought of visiting my father’s grave alone makes me feel very lonely.”