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Kiran Kaur received a three-year sentence for helping remove the murder weapon, a charge often categorised as 'perverting the course of justice' or 'assisting an offender'. These offences carry significantly lighter sentences than murder, which typically results in a life sentence. Her role was to aid the killer after the fact, not to commit the murder itself.
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