The Kiranjit Ahluwalia Case "The Woman who set her Husband on fire"

This case examines Kiranjit's childhood in India, she was one of nine and her Mother and Father died when she was 16 years old, she states her upbringing was incredibly good and she had a middle-class quality of life.As a child and young adult, her ambitions were to study and not marry as was normal in her culture. She found that outside forces limited her ambitions and while visiting her Brother in Canada she was persuaded to settle down and marry. She states that she had no choice but to marry. Her Bother, who she was staying with and who lived in Canada arranged for a Man called Deepak Ahluwalia to fly from England to Canada to meet Kiranjit. Kiranjit and Deepak only met once before getting married in Canada. Ahluwalia states that the abuse started the next day after marrying Deepak, they then moved the UK to start their married life. She claims there were ten years of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse.She tried to kill Deepak on the 9th May 1989 by setting him alight when he was asleep, using petrol and caustic soda (his death is described within the video). Deepak died 6 days later. After initially being convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, Ahluwalia's conviction was later overturned on grounds of inadequate counsel and replaced voluntary manslaughter. Although her submission of provocation failed (under R v Duffy the loss of control needed to be sudden, which this was not), she successfully pleaded the partial defence of diminished responsibility under s.2 Homicide Act 1957 on the grounds that fresh medical evidence (which was not available at her original trial) may indicate diminished mental responsibility. Related cases used. R v Ahluwalia {1992} ALL ER 889 (This case) R v R {1991} UKHL 12 (The House of Lords determined that under English Law, It is a crime for a husband to rape his wife)R v Camplin {1978} 67 CR. APP.R. 14 (Consent) (I stated this case as loss of control, but it should have been the Duffy case. My Apologies. R v Camplin {1949} 1 ALLE.R.923 (Sudden and temporary loss of self-control)As this case deals with Domestic abuse, I have put up the National Domestic Helpline (UK) Phone: 08082000247, Live Chat nationaldahelpline.org.uk (Monday-Friday, 3PM-10PM)