‘Justice’: B.C. man gets jail time for killing ex-girlfriend’s Chihuahua

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It was an affectional time successful tribunal for a B.C. pistillate whose ex-partner was recovered liable for sidesplitting her dog.

Randeep Ghataura was convicted of killing, wounding oregon injuring an carnal successful October 2024.

On Friday, helium was sentenced to 4 months successful jail, 3 years probation, a 20-year prohibition connected owning oregon possessing immoderate animals and helium indispensable besides wage the costs his ex bore for having the injured canine euthanized.

“For nary crushed that has been expressed to this court, Mr. Ghataura killed a canine who did not measurement 9 pounds by hitting it successful the caput with a shoe… and near her for respective hours earlier she could beryllium humanely euthanized,” Judge Ellen Gordon said successful B.C. Provincial Court connected Friday.

The defence was asking for an 8 to 12-month conditional condemnation order.

Crown asked for 8 months successful jail, 3 years probation and a 20-year prohibition connected owning and possessing animals.

About 5 years ago, Ghataura was successful a narration with Jeannie Chiasson, who owned a Chihuahua named Tacori.

The mates had breached up erstwhile Chiasson said Ghataura went to her spot to driblet disconnected immoderate items.

Chiasson wasn’t location astatine the clip but she said Ghataura entered anyway.

She said helium aboriginal called her and told her that Tacori was acting strangely. In court, Crown revealed that erstwhile Ghataura was asked astir what happened, helium said helium “maybe” deed the canine with a shoe.

Chiasson rushed location and said she recovered the small canine hunched implicit with reddish eyes.

She rushed her to the vet but was told the Chihuahua was successful aesculapian distress and determination was thing they could bash to prevention her.

Tacori had to beryllium enactment to sleep.

In court, Chiasson work a unfortunate interaction connection and shared that connection extracurricular the court.

She said she ne'er thought she would look specified evil oregon person to participate into the combat of her beingness conscionable to find bid someday.

“That past nighttime I had with Tacori I asked her for 1 past buss portion I cried uncontrollably, and past she reached retired and licked my nose, and past her caput fell into the thenar of my hand, she died,” Chiasson said.

She added that she didn’t adjacent privation to unrecorded aft what happened with her dog. She sought retired therapy and her doc enactment her connected antidepressants but she said they made her consciousness horrible.

“What has happened to maine is going to enactment with maine for the remainder of my life,” Chiasson said. “But I person made a determination that I americium nary longer a victim. I americium present a subsister due to the fact that I americium a beardown idiosyncratic and I americium a fighter.”

She added that she knows Tacori is looking down and is arrogant of her and wants her to beryllium happy.

“I didn’t combat this hard and past everything to beryllium broken,” Chiasson said. “I was beardown and I survived to archer the communicative that Tacori could not.”

Speaking extracurricular of tribunal connected Friday aft the verdict was announced Chiasson said it inactive brings tears to her eyes.

“Justice has been served,” she said, “it has been served.”

Chiasson said that it shocked her to spot Ghataura due to the fact that helium inactive didn’t look to amusement immoderate remorse.

“There wasn’t a teardrop successful his eye, the lone happening that helium said was ‘The cuffs are excessively tight, it’s hurting my arm.’ That was his lone remorse.”

Since Tacori’s death, Chiasson said she has been warring for justice. She said she was turned distant by aggregate lawyers who told her she was ne'er going to win.

“To really spot the cuffs spell connected and to cognize that idiosyncratic really believes you, and they’re going to combat for an guiltless carnal that couldn’t combat for themselves, that suffered for 5 hours, holding connected to life, waiting for maine to travel home, that was everything.

“It was perfectly everything and it was justice.”