Press Association
Friday 10th February 2012
A stalker who carried out a "frenzied" knife attack on his ex-girlfriend after a campaign of harassment has been jailed for life.
Vikramgit Singh, 26, was told he must serve at least 20 years for the murder of Gemma Dorman in July 2008.
Miss Dorman, 24, was planning a new life in Spain when he stabbed her repeatedly outside a Thai restaurant.
She had been having dinner with her fiance in Lavender Hill, south west London, when she went out to get cash.
Singh was waiting for her and attacked her at a bus shelter with a large kitchen knife as she cried "get off me, get off me", the Old Bailey heard.
Jurors at the Old Bailey heard he was "infatuated" with Miss Dorman and paid £200 to have a large heart-shaped tattoo with her name in it on his back.
Two months before the murder, she had told police he was stalking her and bombarding her with hundreds of text messages.
Judge Paul Worsley told him: "She had rejected you after being in a brief relationship with you.
"You determined that if she would not be with you, she would be with no one else. Having stabbed her repeatedly, you walked away. She was only 24. She had a life ahead of her. For her family, she was irreplaceable."
Singh, an Indian illegal immigrant who lived in Southall, bit his nails as jurors filed into court to return their verdict. He showed no emotion as he was found guilty of murder by an 11-1 majority and jailed for life.
