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The teen made the awful discovery after a trip to Sobeys with her dad — Bhupinderpal Gill — for flowers and cake to celebrate her parents’ wedding anniversary.

Gill and Ronald are on trial for first-degree murder in what prosecutors have branded as a plot to get rid of the woman they despised.

The ruse to get Ronald’s DNA was authorized by a warrant, as was the use of hidden video cameras in the basement, where Gill was caught on tape twice looking at a bloodstained weightlifting bar before he concealed it in his jacket, only to later dump it outside.

In opening remarks, the Crown claimed that the two accused, both OC Transpo drivers, would do anything to be together — even if it meant killing Gill’s wife.

In the 28 days leading to Jagtar’s death, Gill and Ronald spoke on the phone more than 250 times for a total of 48 hours.

The jury was told that, on the day of the killing, Gill convinced his daughter to run errands with him, leaving Jagtar behind.

The daughter had stayed home from school to look after her mother and to study for an exam, while her two siblings went to class.

The Crown has told the jury that while Gill and his daughter were out shopping, Ronald paid a deadly visit to their home, slashing Jagtar’s neck and left wrist, then stabbed her repeatedly in the stomach and bashed her about the head with the weightlifting bar.

And when the husband got home, he started washing the bloody knives used to kill his wife, the jury heard. He also hid the bloodied weightlifting bar.

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