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Teary woman recalls gang's fatal attack
Nov 21, 2006, 21:37
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by: PETER SMALL
COURTS REPORTER
A woman wept on the stand as she recalled seeing a young man fatally attacked by a bat-wielding gang outside an east Toronto high school.
Shirley Ann Sukharrie, 21, testified yesterday that she and a male friend were going to night school classes at Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute on Oct. 8, 2003 when they saw a "bunch of guys" in the parking lot of the nearby mall. As she and her friend approached the front door of the school, she said, she saw a group of young men, who appeared to be, like her, of Tamil extraction, running toward the school. A man she would learn was Janakan Sivalingam tripped and fell onto a curb, and was surrounded by five or six attackers, some wielding bats, she said. Other witnesses also saw machetes, court has heard.
After the attackers kept hitting Sivalingam and swore in Tamil, they all ran off when one of them said the police were coming, the witness said. Sivalingam died seven hours later in hospital.
The Crown alleges that Gobianath Suntharalingam, 25, Sujenth Ulaganathan, 23, and Karmugan Palarajah, 23, were among the men who attacked Sivalingam, 21. They have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.
The trial continues today.
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