Accused killer Jaswant Gill’s confession in wife’s death revealed in court

ACCUSED killer Jaswant Singh Gill, who has pleaded not guilty to the second-degree murder of his wife, Gurpreet Gill, and to the first-degree murder of Thomas Eldon Akerman, told an under police officer posing as the leader of a crime group, that people kept telling him to get rid of his wife, a B.C. Supreme Court jury heard this week.

He said his parents told him to get rid of the relationship and when he confronted his wife, she just kept cursing his mother, wishing the most evil things on her. He said the fight ended up in twisting her neck.

After he had killed his wife, he stored her body in the refrigerator after placing it in a plastic bag, He then disposed of her body on military lands in Richmond with the help of another man, he told the police officer.

Gurpreet (Ruby) Gill was killed on Valentine’s Day in February 2006. Thomas Eldon Akerman, 26, was killed in December 1994.

Gurpreet Gill came to Canada from India after an arranged marriage with her husband in 2000. Her mother reported her missing to the Vancouver police in 2006 and a missing person’s case was started. It led to a homicide investigation.

Gill also told the police officer that he had shot a man in a vehicle near Metrotown and said that it was about greed. He said that the message was to get rid of those who were going to make it harder for your families later on, the court heard.