Life sentence for hitman who killed suspect in 1985 Air India bombings

A hitman who was one of two people who shot and killed a man acquitted in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight has been jailed for life in Canada without the possibility of parole for 20 years.

Tanner Fox, 24, was sentenced on Tuesday by a British Columbia Supreme Court judge.

Fox and Jose Lopez pleaded guilty in October to the second-degree murder of Sikh businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik in 2022. Lopez will be sentenced on Friday.

The sentencing came after an emotional morning, in which Malik’s relatives begged Fox to reveal who hired him to carry out the murder.

“We plead with you to reveal the names of the people who hired you,” said Malik’s daughter-in-law Sundeep Kaur Dhaliwal, according to reporters inside the New Westminster courtroom.

The two men entered their guilty pleas on the eve of their trial for first-degree murder.

Read more: BBC News