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Panghali guilty of wife’s murder BY
TOM ZYTARUK
Optimist contributor
JESSICA KERR
Adoption offers pouring in Animal shelter fielding plenty of inquiries for dogs found abandoned in Delta park BY
JESSICA KERR
jkerr@delta-optimist.com
It shouldn’t be hard for the Delta Community Animal Shelter to find new homes for the seven dogs found abandoned last Friday in a local park. Manager Sarah Lowe said the shelter has received more than 30 e-mails from people interested in taking one of the dogs. The poodle crosses were found
at Dow Park, which is located at River and Huston roads in the Tilbury industrial area not far from the 80th Street shelter. Someone who was passing by the unused park and saw the frightened dogs reported the incident to the shelter. The dogs were in bad shape when they were brought in. Their white fur was dirty, matted and stained, their teeth were “horrible,” and they were scared and
malnourished, Lowe said. The animal shelter believes the dogs, which range in age from around four months to about four years, were bred and lived in cages before being left in the park. None had been spayed or neutered. “They seem just like puppy mill puppies,” she said. The dogs are all currently receiving treatment for various issues (one had an infection in its
uterus) and learning to be around people and other dogs. “The dogs are exceptionally shy and obviously not socialized,” Lowe said. She said the shelter is hoping to place the dogs soon and staff will be going through all the applications to find suitable homes. “These guys are special needs,” she said, adding they will need a relaxed home and owners with the time to devote to them.
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Delta Community Animal Shelter manager Sarah Lowe (right), with Cinderella, and staff member Brittony Koryzma, with Prince, two of the seven dogs that were abandoned in a park last week. The shelter has received more than 30 e-mails from people wanting to adopt one of the dogs.
The husband of the woman whose burned body was found along Deltaport Way in 2006 was found guilty of her murder yesterday. Former Surrey teacher Mukhtiar Panghali Singh was found guilty of murdering his wife and then burning her body to conceal evidence of the crime. The second-degree murder conviction carries a life Mukhtiar sentence but Panghali Singh the court has yet to determine his parole eligibility. Panghali did not display much emotion as Justice Heather Holmes announced the verdict in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster, after delivering a synopsis of her 57-page judgment. Relatives of the victim, 31year-old Manjit Panghali, erupted in tears and exclamations of “it’s over.” Manjit Panghali was a Surrey school teacher, as was her husband. She was four months pregnant when she was strangled to death in October 2006. The couple had a three-year-old daughter at the time of Manjit’s death. The verdict came almost two months after a four-week, judgeonly trial, during which the Crown contended Panghali tried to cover up the crime.