Indian-origin mother in UK guilty of 10-year-old daughter’s murder

Updated: Sep 1st, 2024


Jaskirat Kaur, also known as Jasmine Kang of UK, pleaded guilty in murder of her own daughter Shay Kang at Wolverhampton Crown Court in UK on Aug 30.

The 33-year-old Indian-origin woman admitted to killing her 10-year-old daughter, who was found dead at their residence in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England, in March this year. 

Kaur is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct 25.

Earlier, Kaur denied murdering her daughter, but prosecution counsel Sally Howes KC indicated that the Crown accepted her guilty plea to manslaughter, according to a UK-based regional newspaper.

Kaur’s defence lawyer, Katherine Goddard, acknowledged that there was “no dispute over the facts” of the case, and the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that Kaur’s guilty plea to manslaughter was acceptable to the prosecution.

Shay Kang was found dead at the family’s residence in Rowley Regis on Mar 4. A postmortem examination determined that her death was caused by stab wounds to the chest, a conclusion that was confirmed during an inquest at the Black Country coroner’s court in March.

Shay’s school described her ‘a bright, happy, fun-loving girl who was well liked by all, and who is now very sadly missed by everyone’.

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