Love, Honour & Obey: The Murder of Surjit Athwal

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Following the murder case of 26-year-old Surjit Athwal, who failed to come home to London from a family trip to India in the December of 1998. Her husband and mother-in-law returned without her claiming that Surjit changed her travel plans, however Surjit's brother Jagdeesh reported her as a missing person to the police. Law enforcement faced a wall of silence from the tight knit Sikh community. A women who knew what had happened to Surjit feared she would be the next to disappear if she chose to reveal the truth.

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