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From: Mark Rowley <markrow@ihug.co.nz>
To: mention@yahoogroups.com <mention@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 11 May 2002 23:27
Subject: [Mention] light my fire
>diesel, petrol, meths.... these two women were out to kill, maim and
>disfigure.
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>There was obviously some part of 'no' they couldn't understand.
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>Mark
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>Lover's attack earns 6 years' jail
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11 May 2002 New Zealand Herald
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A 33-year-old woman who set fire to a young man who
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wanted to end their relationship was sentenced in the
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Auckland District Court yesterday to six years' jail.
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The court heard that Vivian Eve Northover planned the
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attack - which targeted the 19-year-old's face - for
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revenge and left him alone, unable to see and burning in
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her Parnell apartment.
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The victim was admitted to intensive care for four days
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with "sickening" burns.
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Michael Lloyd, for Northover, said she was known at
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work as "the kind, sweet person around the office". She
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had no record of violence or anti-social behaviour and
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was at a total loss to explain the attack.
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Judge Simon Lockhart, QC, said it was "cruel, callous
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and deliberate".
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Last month, Northover pleaded guilty to disfiguring the
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victim with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.
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Prosecutor Kevin Glubb said both Northover and the
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victim, whose name is suppressed, shared the same
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workplace and had been in a relationship that ended last
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year.
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Although the young man had tried to let Northover down
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softly, she had asked a male colleague to beat him up,Mr Glubb said.
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She wanted his face ruined.
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The "hit" never happened but on March 15 she invited
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the victim over, the prosecutor said.
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When the young man arrived, Northover doused him
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with methylated spirits and set it alight.
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Judge Lockhart expressed disappointment that no one
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had warned the victim of his danger.
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>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=1844702&thesection=news&
thesubsection=general
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>Woman who burned man found guilty
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9 May 2002 New Zealand Herald
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A 28-year-old mother has been found guilty of trying to
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murder her former lover by setting him alight in his car.
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Armajeet Kaur Singh wept in the dock as a jury of eight
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men and four women in the High Court at Hamilton
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found her guilty of attempted murder and arson.
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The charges related to an incident last June when Singh
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lured her former lover Swaran Singh (no relation) to the
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outskirts of Hamilton and tried to kill him.
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An affair had begun after Singh started working in Mr
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Singh's vegetable shop. Singh became enraged when Mr
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Singh tried to break off what he called a "very minor"
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sexual relationship.
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Refusing to accept his decision, an emotional Singh
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pursued her ex-lover, phoning him, sending love letters at first, and then
hate-mail.
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On June 21 she called him to arrange a final meeting at a Hamilton park.
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As he sat in his car she doused him with a bucket of
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petrol, set it alight and fled the scene.
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With his arms, face and thighs on fire, Mr Singh jumped
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from his burning car into a nearby puddle.
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He suffered burns to his face and legs, and serious burns
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to his hands.
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Throughout the three-day trial, Singh's lawyer, Philip
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Morgan, said it was not disputed that his client had set
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the fire, but her intention was to destroy the car, not kill Mr Singh.
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But prosecutor Ross Douch argued, and the jury agreed
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in just two hours, that Singh had intended to kill.
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Mr Douch said that an incident two days before the
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attack, when Singh had poured diesel over her victim's
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car, was a premeditated sign of her intentions.
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"She's learned that the diesel won't light so she changes
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to petrol. She's changed the game plan completely, and in
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a very sinister way.
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"He becomes the target and the car's the coffin,
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regrettably."
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Singh's father and husband, who had been in court each
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day, listened in disbelief to the verdict.
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That disbelief soon turned to shock, and her father broke
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down when his daughter turned to him in tears.
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Judge Paul Heath remanded Singh in custody until late
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this month and called for a psychiatric report to be
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carried out before sentencing.
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>http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=1844231&thesection=news&
thesubsection=general
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