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Nursing student Jasmeen Kaur was stalked, abducted and killed by Tarikjot Singh in March 2021 when she was buried alive in a shallow grave more than 400 kilometres from where she was last seen leaving work in Adelaide.
Singh pleaded guilty to murder before he was due to stand trial earlier this year after initially denying the killing.
On Tuesday, Singh was sentenced to mandatory life in imprisonment.
He will be eligible for parole after 22 years and 10 months.
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The minimum non-parole period for murder in South Australia is 20 years.
He drove Kaur for hours from Adelaide to the outback while she was restrained in the back or boot of the car.
Her body was later found blindfolded, limbs bound with cable ties and gaffer tape in a shallow grave in the Flinders Ranges.
The murder has been described as an “act of vengeance” with an “uncommon level of cruelty”.
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