A woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and buried alive provided a statement to police just five weeks before her death detailing how her ‘over possessive’ killer repeatedly stalked her at her workplace.
Jasmeen Kaur, 21, was kidnapped from the South Australian aged care home she worked at in North Plympton, Adelaide, in March, 2021.
She was later bound and buried while she was conscious and died from ‘actively breathing in and swallowing soil’.
In a statement signed on January 28, 2021 Ms Kaur said she had been in a controlling relationship with Tarikjot Singh, 23, for about nine months.
Jasmeen Kaur, 21, was abducted and buried alive in 2021
‘He was over possessive and wanted to control who I spent time with,’ she said in the document released by the Supreme Court.
Ms Kaur told police she had ended the relationship on January 4, 2021, but Singh ‘didn’t take this well’.
‘He stated that I had to be with him or if not he would attempt suicide,’ she said.
During their relationship she said Singh had sometimes ‘got upset’ when she made plans to go out with friends and would call her and demand she go home.
The day after the pair split, Ms Kaur said she was working an afternoon shift as a carer at a Southern Cross Care Home in North Plympton when she sighted Singh through a window.
She went outside during her break and he pleaded with her not to end the relationship.
Singh again threatened suicide so she called a friend of his to check on him.
‘When I ended my shift at 9pm I went outside and found Tarikjot in his car affected by some type of drug,’ she said.
Ms Kaur had warned police about her ‘possessive’ ex-boyfriend Tarikjot Singh, five weeks before her death
Ms Kaur’s body was found in a shallow grave in the Flinders Ranges
She said Singh’s friend took him to hospital and she was given a ‘suicide letter’ in which Singh blamed her family for the downfall of their relationship.
The following day, on January 6, 2021, Singh and a member of his family arrived at the home she shared with her aunt in a bid to convince her to come with them.
Ms Kaur outlined how Singh had played TikTok videos to her family of the couple in a hotel room in an attempt to ‘diminish’ her reputation.
The next day, Singh again returned to her workplace and waited near her car for her to finish her shift.
Ms Kaur said she ignored him and left, but he ‘followed me in his car all the way home’.
‘When I got home he kept going but I didn’t feel safe or comfortable with what he was doing,’ she told police.
She said Singh continued to call and plead with her to recommence their relationship and threatened to further distribute videos of the former couple if she did not do as he said.
On the day she gave her statement, Ms Kaur said her ‘very distressed and upset’ mother, who lived in India, had called her because Singh had sent her the videos of the former couple.
Ms Kaur’s body was discovered bounded, blindfolded and buried in the Flinders Ranges
Police cautioned Singh for stalking on February 9, 2021.
A month later, on the evening of March 5, 2021, Singh again attended her workplace and abducted her.
The day before he murdered Ms Kaur, Singh downloaded a map of security camera locations in Adelaide.
Singh had also swapped cars with his flat mate and used that vehicle to drive to Ms Kaur’s workplace where he abducted her.
In the lead-up Singh purchased cable ties and a shovel from Bunnings.
Security footage on the evening of March 5 shows Singh heading north, with Ms Kaur out of sight, allegedly being either restrained in the back seat or the boot.
Ms Kaur was then callously murdered and buried in the Flinders Ranges that night.
Her body was later found with her hands tied together with a cable tie behind her back, her feet taped and cable-tied together and she was blindfolded.
Singh had put his phone’s SIM card into another handset, swapping it back upon his return home from the Flinders Ranges about 6pm on March 6, 2021.
He was at home that evening when police came to ask about Ms Kaur’s whereabouts.
The court has heard Singh was supposed to work an overnight shift at a southern suburbs pub on the night Ms Kaur was abducted, but his housemate worked the shift instead.
He later made admissions to an aunt, then told police Ms Kaur had taken her own life and he had buried her in the Flinders Ranges, north of Hawker.
He led police to the site on March 7, who found Ms Kaur buried under 30cm of sand. Her hands were bound, she was blindfolded and her throat had been cut – but those wounds were found to be superficial.
When questioned by police following the incident, Singh initially denied knowing anything about where she was before altering his story and saying she had taken her own life and then he had then buried her.
Justice Kimber in July formally imposed a mandatory life sentence for Singh for Ms Kaur’s murder, with a non-parole period set to be decided next month.
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