Hit and run victim Kulwinder Gill, who died in April 2009 on an Abbotsford rural road after being struck by a vehicle.
A 53-year-old Abbotsford man has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill his wife eight years ago.
Iqbal Singh Gill was charged in 2013 with conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree murder after his wife Kulwinder Kaur Gill was struck by a truck on Townshipline Road in Abbotsford on April 27, 2009.
Gill was strolling alongside his wife at the time she was struck. He flagged down police and led them to a ditch where her body was found. Emergency responders were unable to revive her.
A truck believed to have been used in the crime was found about 90 minutes later.
Three other men were also charged in the hit and run murder. Two earlier pleaded guilty and a third is set to go to trial next May.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced Friday that Gill had entered a guilty plea to one of the charges in a New Westminster courtroom. The murder charge was stayed.
A sentencing hearing for Gill will start on Nov. 1
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“In partnership with Crown Counsel and the Abbotsford Police Department, three men have been prosecuted and are serving sentences for their roles in the murder of Kulwinder Gill,” IHIT Cpl. Meghan Foster said Friday.
Foster said that after Kulwinder was struck, investigators determined that something more nefarious than an accident had happened. IHIT was called in to lead the murder investigation.
“After a very involved four-year investigation IHIT, in partnership with Abbotsford Police Department and RCMP on a national level, secured charges on four individuals including Mrs. Gill’s husband,” Foster said.
Iqbal Gill has a history of drug smuggling prior to conspiring to kill his wife.
As the time of the charges, Abbotsford police revealed that the victim had made a 911 call in February 2006 after a domestic incident, but then hung up the phone.
When police arrived, she told them there was a verbal altercation and nothing more.
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