The young man who violently beat a 10-year-old girl in Pointe-aux-Trembles, Montreal, last March, first formulated the plan to kill his former supervisor, it is alleged in a new lawsuit filed with the Court Wednesday morning.
On March 14, 2022, the child was returning home with two friends around 11:30 a.m. for lunch when Tanvir Singh, 21, accosted her in the street, threw her to the ground and repeatedly punched her in the head. , inflicting serious injuries.
He had been arrested at the scene.
In July, he was found not criminally responsible for his actions on account of mental disorder.
The Crown prosecutor, Me Annabelle Sheppard, believes that the young man remains a danger to the public, and to this end, has filed a motion to have him declared a “high risk accused”. »
In it, several allegations – none of them has yet been proven in court – allow us to reconstruct the hours preceding the attack on the girl.
The day before, Tanvir Singh allegedly asked a man living in the same house as him in Brampton, Ontario, for a weapon in order to carry out a mass shooting in the factory where he had worked in Montreal. The latter refused, and there was no follow-up to this conversation, can we read in the procedure.
Then, he would have gone to Montreal “completely overwhelmed by voices and his thoughts”.
At the factory, he would have obtained an “exacto” and tried to lure his supervisor into the parking lot to attack him. But that plan didn’t work, so he left the place and then ran into the girl with two friends.
If a judge declares him a “high-risk accused”, this would make his detention in a psychiatric hospital even stricter, Mr. Sheppard explained in July, adding that the objective is to ensure public safety. She also filed a psychiatric expert report to support her allegations.
The young man’s attorney has signaled her intention to request her own expertise in order to enlighten the judge who will be called upon to decide.
Tanvir Singh is not free: he is still detained at the Philippe-Pinel Psychiatric Institute in Montreal.
Further details will follow.