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Killer Tried To Cut Out Unborn Baby From Poor Rani's Butchered Body

Feb 7 2008

Portraits Of Evil Gurmit Bassi Slaughtered Her Love Rival On The Sikh Day For Revenge

ALL the woman could hear were shouts and screams coming from the flat next door - "Leave me alone, you dog!" Just another couple having a fierce row?

It was worse than that. When cops walked into that flat in Woodlands Drive, Glasgow, they walked into a scene from hell.

The walls and furniture were sprayed with blood and on the floor lay a young Asian woman, stabbed and slashed to pieces.

A cross had been carved into her back. Her head was almost severed.

Then the worst wound - a knife had been driven into her in some effort to cut out her unborn baby.

Rajwinder Bassi, 32, had only been in Scotland for a year, hoping for a better life than back in Punjab.

By April 13, 1998, her hopes had been dashed in agony on the floor of that flat.

Rajwinder, known as Rani, had moved to Scotland after marrying Harbej Bassi.

He was older than her, an owner of a successful restaurant in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire. This was his second marriage.

The cops did what they often do in such killings - put the husband under the microscope first.

No joy. He had a solid alibi, having been working in his restaurant, The Royal Ashoka, that night and having scores of staff and customers to swear to it.

During hours of interviews, in the police station Harbej had said some interesting things about his ex-wife.

Harbej had married Gurmit Bassi back in 1980 as, he freely admitted, a way for him to stay legally in Scotland.

For years, they seemed to have a happy marriage bringing up their two sons, then it all went wrong.

Harbej told the police that Gurmit suffered from depression so badly she had to be taken into hospital. She made outrageous claims and became unbearable. That's why they had been divorced.

Thinking of the murder scene, the cops could only imagine such bloody horrors being carried out by someone not in control of their senses. So they looked more closely at Gurmit Bassi.

Sure enough, she had spent periods in psychiatric hospitals, including Leverndale in Glasgow's south side.

There, she claimed her husband was a mass murderer, listing "victims" that revealed that it couldn't be true.

She also claimed her Cambuslang home, near Glasgow, was full of snakes and that small animals lived inside her.

The poor woman was ill right enough but spoiled her treatment by spending long hours in the grounds of the hospital swigging cider.

Harbej also admitted that after he had divorced Gurmit, he continued to have sex with her.

Even after he married Rajwinder, he continued to see his ex sexually.

It was only when his new wife became pregnant that he told Gurmit their relationship was completely over.

He claimed she went crazy. Then came the breakthrough evidence.

Harbej and Gurmit's 14-year-old son Steven and his younger brother had moved in with their dad and Rajwinder a short time before, probably to escape their mother's erratic behaviour.

Around 9.30 pm on the night of the murder, he had been at home when his mother had phoned him.

She asked him to come down to the street and bring the house keys with him.

Steven did as he was asked. On the pavement, he met his mother with a man he didn't know. Gurmit told Steven to wait as she went up to the flat with the man.

He asked her why and his mother told him she had paid the man £1000 to kill Rajwinder's unborn baby and that his father really loved her and would want this to happen.

The police arrested Gurmit Bassi. Now they needed her accomplice.

In Cambuslang, they found she had quite openly been asking men to carry out a hit job - to kill a woman.

Finally, they traced the man with Gurmit that night - former butcher, 25year-old Christopher Jones. After a police grilling, Jones eventually admitted being in the house that night but said he knew nothing of the murder.

But then, Jones's lover, Anne McBarron told them that on the night Rajwinder was killed, she recalled Jones came home late with blood on both hands.

When she asked what had happened, he said: "I must've left a guy for dead."

Then he told her of a street fight with two men.

Even then, she didn't believe him. His hands had a series of sharp cuts like he'd get from a knife not the battered and bruised knuckles he would get from a fist fight.

Gurmit Bassi and Christopher Jones appeared for trial at the High Court in Glasgow in December 1998 charged with murdering Rajwinder.

In the court every day, a dignified older woman sat and watched with sad eyes. Rajwinder's mother had flown from India to look in the eyes of her daughter's killer.

Both pleaded not guilty. Both would end up claiming the other did it.

Gurmit even said that her ex-husband had hired Jones as a hitman, not her.

Jones admitted that he was there but that it was Gurmit who had brutally killed Rajwinder.

This was when the neighbour who heard the row that night became important. "Leaveme alone, you dog!" is what she had heard, in Punjabi.

In Punjabi the phrase "you dog" is only ever male.

When Steven was called to give evidence, he got very upset.

At one point, he even changed his story from what he had told the cops at first, and claimed that Jones had gone into the flat alone.

But with gentle persuasion, he admitted that wasn't the case. That his mother had gone into the flat with Jones.

Jones admitted going into the flat but not for murder. He said he had been paid £500 and some jewellery to go along with Gurmit, and that when she started stabbing Rajwinder, he claimed he fainted.

But medical evidence showed that injuries to Jones's hands could only have been made with a knife used in violence.

Gurmit Bassi's defence lawyer, Gordon Jackson, said she was under pressure due to her divorce and the continuing sexual relationship with her husband.

Then it was pointed out that the date of the murder - April 13, 1998 - was the Sikh holy day of Basaki, a day for revenge.

Gurmit would also have known that many neighbours in the Woodlands area would have been at the temple. The area would have been quiet.

The tale unfolded in court was complex indeed, with the accused blaming and counter-blaming each other. But it wasn't too complex for the jury. They found both Bassi and Jones guilty of the horrific murder and they were sentenced to life.

Bassi was given a minimum of 14 years - one of the highest sentences for a female killer in Scotland in recent times.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/newsfeed...86908-20311360/

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