ATHWAL, SURJIT murder: Killer in the Family TV - Mail online - The Killer in My Family TV - When Missing Turns to Murder TV -
These are the last pictures ever taken of twenty-seven-year-old mother of two Surjit Athwal. With her is her mother-in-law Bachan Athwal who persuaded her to go to India to attend this family wedding. Days later she went missing and was never seen again. Surjit was murdered on the orders of her own husband and mother-in-law but they cleverly covered their tracks. These killers were so cold and heartless they were prepared to murder and make their own grandchildren suffer the loss of their mother. Killer in the Family: The Honour Killers, Crime Channel 2012
Surjit was just sixteen years old when her parents organised for her to have an arranged marriage. The year was 1988 ... A union Surjit’s family would bitterly regret. ibid.
Surjit was drugged, strangled and thrown into the River Ravi in the Punjab. ibid.
Seriously abused and policed at home by her strict Sikh mother-in-law and husband. ibid.
Surjit consulted a solicitor about a divorce; she had begun a relationship with another man. ibid.
At least twelve women in the UK are known each year to have been killed by family members because of so-called honour. ibid.
This was a groundbreaking case. ibid.
A woman was murdered by her mother-in-law and husband after disgracing her Indian family by having an affair, a court has heard.
Surjit Kaur Athwal, a mother of two, was lured to India on the pretext of attending family weddings. Once there, she was allegedly strangled.
Surjit, a ‘Westernised’ 27-year-old Sikh, worked as a customs officer at Heathrow.
Her husband Sukhdave’s family were said to have been concerned that she cut her hair short, smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol.
Tensions between Surjit, her 43-year-old husband, and her mother-in-law, Bachan Athwal, reached breaking point when they discovered she was having an affair and she announced she wanted a divorce, the Old Bailey heard.
At a secret family meeting, the matriarch Bachan, 70, a mother of six, allegedly decreed that her daughter-in-law had besmirched the family’s honour, and said they needed to ‘get rid of her’.
Surjit was lured on the trip to the Punjab with Bachan then ‘disappeared from the face of the Earth’. Mail online article ‘Mother-in-Law lured a cheating wife to her death’
In December 1998 Surjit Athwal, a young mother of two from East London, had not spoken to her family for weeks. She was disappeared. Surjit was married to Sukhdave Athwal. The Killer in My Family s1e5: Surjit Athwal, Quest Red 2020
So Bachan made plans to dispose of her daughter-in-law Surjit for good. ibid.
The man chosen for Sarbjit was the Athwal’s youngest son. ibid.
The Athwals believed they had got away with the perfect murder. ibid.
A family is left without answers when their sister-in-law vanishes. Leading detectives to raid a family home. When Missing Turns to Murder s2e6: Surjit Athwal
The disappearance of Surjit Athwal back in 1998. ibid.
As the family intimidate Sarbjit, police are mounting up the case for a murder trial. ibid.
ATKINS, BOB: People Magazine Investigates TV -
1991: I could see black smoke coming out. I knew my mom [Joy Hibbs] was in the house because her car was in the driveway. People Magazine Investigates s6e7: American Nightmare, son, ID 2022
Who would want to murder Joy and why? Detectives first search the house for the knife used in Joy’s murder but they are unable to find one that matches the wounds on Joy’s body. ibid.
Bob [Atkins] had an explosive temper and I was scared of him … I heard him say [to mom], ‘I will kill you and blow up your house.’ ibid. son
ATKINS, BENJAMIN: In December 1991 in Detroit and neighbouring city Highland Park the bodies of two women were discovered in abandoned buildings. When more bodies started appearing, police from both districts realised that a dangerous predator was roaming their streets. One woman was sure she had survived an attack by the killer, a man she knew as Tony 24-year-old Benjamin Atkins, but her claims were ignored by the police. With evey month that passed the body count continued to rise, until one officer finally took Darleen’s claims seriously and drove her out on to the streets to look for her attacker. When the truth finally emerged, Benjamin Atkins would be unmasked as one of the world’s most evil killers. World’s Most Evil Killers s10e2: Benjamin Atkins, Sky Crime 2026
ATKINSON, ADRIAN: Murder Case TV -
4th March 2018, Paisley: A man’s body [Stephen Wallace] has been found in a flat on the 12th floor of a tower block. Murder Case: Motive Unknown, BBC 2024
Detectives view CCTV to establish the last sighting of Stephen Wallace. ibid.
Detectives have been told of a dispute between Stephen Wallace and a neighbour, Adrian John Atkinson. ibid.
Detectives piece together Adrian Atkinson’s movement on CCTV. ibid.
‘He admitted that he had murdered Stephen Wallace.’ ibid.
AUGUSTINE, DALLAS: Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
The life of Dallas Augustine, daughter of a connected Republican. Dallas’s mother would be killed by her husband. The tragedies just kept on coming … Meet, Marry, Murder s2e16, Netflix 2022
The loves and lives of Jessie McCaskill and Dallas Augustine … ibid.
AULAKH, HARPREET et al: How I Caught the Killer TV - Guardian online - Killer at the Crime Scene TV -
West London, 2009: ‘The murder team received information that a female [Geeta Aulakh] had been savagely attacked in Braund Avenue.’ How I Caught the Killer s3e1: Aulakh: Assassin’s Accomplice, rozzer, Sky Crime 2023
‘We knew that the [marriage] relationship was not well.’ ibid.
Howard and the team had only one person in their sites – her ex, Sonny [Harpreet]. ibid.
Geeta Aulakh killing: a brutal murder ordered by a jealous husband: Greeta Aulakh was ‘selfless, hardworking and devoted to her children’. Her husband, Harpreet, was in the private words of one detective on the case, ‘a shit of Biblical proportions.’ Guardian online article 3rd December 2010
It’s the evening rush hour in London. A woman has been savagely attacked on her way home. Killer at the Crime Scene s3e4, Netflix 2023
‘This was the murder of a loving mother of two boys. This was outrageous. The most barbaric way of killing somebody.’ ibid. rozzer
The ferocity of the attack leads police to suspect it was personal. ibid.
‘A history of violence – the finger would be pointing at him.’ [Sonny] ibid. domestic violence campaigner