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Source: Surrey Leader
BRITISH COLUMBIA - A Surrey father who tried to cover up his son's involvement in a fatal hit and run will pay a fine but serve no time.
Major Iqbal Sanghera has been ordered to pay $3,000 and placed on probation for six months for helping his son Jessie try to conceal his involvement in the Sept. 8, 2007 hit-and-run in Surrey that killed 18-year-old Lemar Faqirzada and seriously injured then-19-year-old Rochelle D’Emilio.
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The two teens were crossing a marked crosswalk south of the intersection at 152 Street and 96 Avenue just before midnight when they were hit by a blue Jetta driven by Jessie Sanghera.
The vehicle did not stop and accelerated away from the scene.
Faqirzada was taken to hospital where he died of his injuries.
D’Emilio suffered a broken leg.
The 60-year-old Sanghera was charged with public mischief for allegedly lying to police and fraud under $5,000 for making a false statement to ICBC
Court records show the father and son tried to convince the public auto insurance company that the extensive damage to the front of the VW Jetta the younger Sanghera was driving was the result of a road rage incident.
A man had attacked the car with a baseball bat, a repair shop was told.
But an RCMP forensic expert identified a paint chip found on Lemar Faqirzada's clothing as coming from a Jetta identical to the Sanghera vehicle.
The elder Sanghera was sentenced Monday in Surrey Provincial Court after pleading guilty to the fraud charge.
The other charge of public mischief was stayed by the prosecutor.
In addition to the fine and the probation order, Sanghera was ordered to pay a $450 victim impact surcharge.
His 31-year-old son, Jessie Sanghera, was sentenced to one year of house arrest plus two years probation in January after he pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to stop at the scene of a collision.
He was banned from driving for two years.
The son refused to confess his responsibility for the fatal crash for almost a year until police brought him in and played a video of the victim's mother, Homira Faqirzada, speaking about the tragic loss of her son.
Homira attended the sentencing on Monday.
"I was shocked," she said.
"There is no justice in Canada. You see all this crime going on, because there is no [deterrent]."
She was offended that neither the son or father will serve any jail time for the death of her son.
Father Mohammad Farquizada was equally appalled.
"The life of my son is worth $3,000?" he said.
The Faqirzadas and their two sons and three daughters emigrated from Afghanistan ins search of a better, less dangerous environment to raise a family, they said.
Lemar, the oldest boy, had recently graduated from high school and was just beginning college to prepare for a career in business.
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