Aidan Becker, an off-duty security guard, died on Friday evening after police allege he intervened when four teenagers attempted to rob the schoolboy just before 6pm at Mernda Railway Station, in Melbourne’s outer north.
In memory of Nancy Grewal, the the Hindu Canadian Foundation declared 3 March as “Anti‑Khalistan Day, a movement by Canadians united against terrorism.”
Robin allegedly attacked his housemate Shawan Singh with a kitchen knife at a rented home in Ormond, before turning on Navjeet Singh, who had intervened.
The Crown also outlined the background of Gurkaran Singh, telling the court he arrived in Canada on a student visa less than a month before the killings and was expected to attend college in Dawson Creek, but never enrolled.
27-year-old Gurjit Singh, an Indian-origin Dunedin-based technician, was discovered unresponsive and covered in blood outside his Liberton home on 28 January 2024.
Justice Crowley said Singh’s attempts to conceal the crime — including burying Cordingley and fleeing to India the next day — worsened the moral gravity of his actions.
The crash killed 42-year-old mother Nancy Lefrançois and her 11-year-old son Loïc Chevalier, who were travelling in a passenger vehicle struck in the collision.
