A man who pleaded guilty to the hit-and-run deaths of a couple returning home from their daughter’s engagement party in 2008 was sentenced to four and a half years in prison Thursday.
Ravinder Singh Binning, 30, awaited his sentence for the July 2008 incident in a Surrey courtroom that was largely occupied by supporters of Dilbag and Bakhshish Badh, with family members wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with a photograph of the slain couple.
“There is no sentence to properly reflect the value of the lives of those killed,” began Judge Reginald Harris before sentencing Binning, who pleaded guilty Feb. 28 to two counts of dangerous driving causing death and one count each of dangerous driving causing bodily harm and leaving the scene of an accident.
“It is clear that a once productive and happy family has been forced into sadness with the deaths of their parents,” Harris said.
Binning already had four 24-hour driving prohibitions before the crash that killed Dilbag, 61, and Bakhshish, 60. He deliberately fled the scene of the crime after witnessing the couple’s daughter, Varinder, screaming for help.
“This is not about us. This is about public safety,” Varinder said. “We hope that our case serves as an example to those policymakers to revisit how they allow such persons to continue driving.
“My mom and dad didn’t deserve this.”
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