Love triangle murder: Jury to deliver verdict

Amandeep Kaur (left) and Gurjinder Singh appear in the High Court at Auckland. Photo / Richard Robinson

A jury deliberating the fate of a South Auckland woman and her lover accused of murdering her husband are about to deliver a verdict.

Earlier, they had asked to rewatch a video interview of the pair.

Amandeep Kaur, 32, and Gurjinder Singh, 27, are on trial in the High Court at Auckland charged with murdering 35-year-old Davender Singh, who was partially decapitated as he and Kaur sat in a car on the side of a South Auckland road on August 7 last year.

The jury began deliberating yesterday, and have this morning asked to rewatch a joint police interview the two accused gave on August 9, last year.

The defendants, who worked at Sistema Plastics in Penrose, had an affair which lasted several months before their spouses found out three weeks before Davender Singh's death.

The Crown said the pair planned the murder so they could be together and it allegedly materialised when Gurjinder Singh followed the couple in their car as they left work and launched an attack when they pulled over on Norman Spencer Drive.

Amandeep Kaur's lawyer John Anderson told the court she might have acted deplorably at times but that did not make her guilty of murder. He said while she planned with her lover to kill her abusive husband she had pulled out before the hit took place.

Gurjinder Singh's lawyer Ish Jayananda said his client turned up at the scene after the slaying.