On March 14th 2003, Malinder Pal Singh Kohli, 41, snatched 17-year-old Hannah Foster from the street while she was walking home from a night out with friends in Portswood, Southampton.
The A-level student was only yards from the home that she shared with her parents and sister, when Kohli grabbed her and bundled her into his van. He then raped her before strangling her and dumping her body in brambles in Allington Lane, West End, Southampton.
Hannah’s body was discovered on March 16th 2003, by a young boy and the investigation into this young girls murder began.
Ten days after the body was found, a nationwide appeal on Crimewatch was launched which finally gave the police a breakthrough.
Kohli is named in a call made to the police on March 27th only for them to learn that he had left the country and flown to India. His sandwich delivery van was seized and his home, where his wife was still living, and the industrial estate premises where he worked were both searched.
A link was made on April 2nd after DNA swabs were taken from Kohli’s wife and children and a warrant for his arrest was issued the next day.
It had now been left in the hands of the Indian police and by January 16th 2004, the reward money for the murderers capture had grown to £70,000.
After finally being arrested while trying to flee to Nepal on July 15th 2004, extradition proceedings began in Delhi. He was finally flown back to Britain on July 28th 2007 and was officially charged with abduction, rape and the murder of Hannah.
The evil killer, was yesterday jailed for a minimum of 24-years, why only that long I don’t know. Why should this scum ever be allowed back onto the streets again. What right does he have to walk out of prison after serving the minimum of his term and go back to living a normal life, that poor girl never got the chance, he cruelly snatched her life away from her.
R.I.P. Hannah, Rot in Hell Malinder Pal Singh Kohli
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