{"id":698868,"date":"2026-07-18T19:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698868\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:30:11","slug":"kirandeep-kaurs-family-devastated-by-her-death-sister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/698868\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirandeep Kaur&#8217;s family &#8216;devastated by her death&#8217;, sister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sister of a 24-year-old mother who was stabbed and killed as she lay in bed with her husband and baby in west London on Sunday has said &#8220;she was my world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kirandeep Kaur, who was originally from India, was fatally attacked at her home in Hayes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking through a translator from the Majha region of Punjab, India, her sister Gursharan told BBC London: &#8220;She is everything for me, she video calls me and my mum. What are we going to do without her?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has been charged with Kaur&#8217;s murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gursharan, who is 21, said her sister came to London looking for a better job so she could support her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My sister moved to the UK in September 2024 to study at Buckinghamshire New University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She completed her studies and worked at a grocery store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We spoke to each other on the phone. But she hasn&#8217;t been back, so I haven&#8217;t seen her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When she reached London &#8211; she told me it was beautiful and she was happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gusharan said her sister was &#8220;very intelligent&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was the top of her class here in India when she was studying, she&#8217;s a very hard worker. She loved us all very much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gusharan added: &#8220;Our family is very poor. She always thinks about us first. She was very supportive to me. She was my world. My heart hurts.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sister of a 24-year-old mother who was stabbed and killed as she lay in bed with her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}