Toronto: RCMP Sgt. G. Sidhu vows to jail the elusive bombers of Air India Flight 182 who killed 329 people in a tragedy that's being called "Canada's own 9/11."
Sidhu of Surrey, B.C. is a six-year member of an Air India Investigative Team whose officers have been plugging away for 27 years to solve one of the worst mass murders in history.
"That was one of the worst cases of aviation terrorism in Canada," Sidhu said. "That was Canada's own 9/11."
She said the lengthy probe is "very active" and suspects are being sought in Canada and abroad.
Some 280 Canadians were among those killed in June 1985 when a bomb sent the Boeing 747 crashing into the Atlantic Ocean over Ireland.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, 59, was sentenced in January 2011 to nine years in prison for perjury stemming from his time as a Crown witness during a 2003 trial. He was given 17 months credit for time already served, reducing his sentence to seven years.
He was acquitted of mass murder and conspiracy in the bombing but pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a five-year sentence in 2002. He has already served a 10-year term for the killing of two baggage handlers the same day at Tokyo's Narita airport.
01/10/12 Tom Godfrey, QMI Agency/CNews
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Sidhu of Surrey, B.C. is a six-year member of an Air India Investigative Team whose officers have been plugging away for 27 years to solve one of the worst mass murders in history.
"That was one of the worst cases of aviation terrorism in Canada," Sidhu said. "That was Canada's own 9/11."
She said the lengthy probe is "very active" and suspects are being sought in Canada and abroad.
Some 280 Canadians were among those killed in June 1985 when a bomb sent the Boeing 747 crashing into the Atlantic Ocean over Ireland.
Inderjit Singh Reyat, 59, was sentenced in January 2011 to nine years in prison for perjury stemming from his time as a Crown witness during a 2003 trial. He was given 17 months credit for time already served, reducing his sentence to seven years.
He was acquitted of mass murder and conspiracy in the bombing but pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a five-year sentence in 2002. He has already served a 10-year term for the killing of two baggage handlers the same day at Tokyo's Narita airport.
01/10/12 Tom Godfrey, QMI Agency/CNews
