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Its gets worse, she suffered a violent disfigurement. I am wondering if the Jewelry issue is a bit of a red herring. To me, it sounds good for the Dadis to cover up the gang rape issue and good for the Indian male psyche to, essentially, blame the female or suggest that it was her fault. The short skirt equation.
It does not make sense. Dawn was a regular visitor to Mount Abu over years. A long term BK involvement. She had experienced working all across Asia and in prisons. Would she have been dumb enough, or lacking in style to wear "heavy jewelry?
Certainly, one does not need $8,000 plus dollars for a month in India, let alone staying with the Brahma Kumaris at Madhuban. Can someone in Australia check up on her Will? Is this BK Dawn?
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Griggs was a long-time member of the Brahma Kumaris Yoga movement and a frequent visitor to its ashram, a usually secluded residence of a religious community and its guru, at Mount Abu in Rajasthan. She intended to visit the ashram and Sri Lanka. It was Grigg's passion for learning that resulted in the third international Soul in Education conference that she helped organize in Byron Bay last year.
Australian tourist killed near airport - Archis Mohan and Vibha Sharma New Delhi, March 17
When Dawn Emelie Griggs landed in Delhi early Wednesday morning, she was looking forward to a spiritual holiday. The 59-year-old Australian, a regular visitor to India, booked a cab to the Brahmakumari ashram in Karol Bagh; she was planning to spend next month at their Mt Abu ashram before returning home.
Instead, her cab driver took Dawn to a secluded spot 200 yards behind the international airport, robbed her, probably raped her, strangled her, disfigured her face and dumped her body. The driver, Jyotish Prasad, has been arrested; a possible accomplice detained. Their motive was robbery.
A few hours after the crime, at around 10 a.m., residents of the nearby Shahbad Mohammadpur village spotted Dawn's body in the bushes and called the police. The cops found her face crushed, nose downwards, probably with a stone. A screwdriver had been banged under her right eye. She'd been cut on her right arm. A cloth was stuffed in her mouth. Her clothes — a saffron kurta and white salwar — were in disarray. There'd obviously been more than one attacker.
The police combed the surrounding area — she'd been found in bushes off the main road to Dwarka, on vacant airport land between the airport and BP towers — and found two heavy pieces of baggage near a well, about 250 yards away. They contained photocopies of her passport, among other things.
Once Dawn was identified, the cops pieced together her story. She arrived in India at 1.55 a.m., having left Sydney on a Qantas flight and taken a connecting Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong. She was a career counsellor, originally from Britain and living in Brisbane the past few years; a letter revealed her Brahmakumari connection. She was booked to return to Australia on April 20, via Colombo.
The cops were surprised to learn Dawn's age; at the spot, despite the gruesome state she was in, they figured her to be much younger than 59 years. They even thought it was a sex crime — they sent her body for a post mortem to find out if she had been raped.
With her details, the cops scanned the vouchers at the pre-paid taxi counter. They found "Griggs" on a receipt for a cab, DL 1T 4428, headed for Karol Bagh — where the ashram was. Bingo. They needed to now just track down the driver. Jyotish Prasad wasn't hard to find. The Bihar native lived in Shahbad village. He was tempted to commit the crime perhaps by the slack cab checking at the international airport and the deserted stretches of road leading there. He told the police Dawn was wearing lots of jewellery. She appears to have been wearing a pouch tied to her waist, where she may have kept traveller’s cheques worth $8,000 and her passport; the pouch is still missing.
Not long after the police made the arrest, they detained an accomplice, also a native of Bihar. He was being questioned late into the evening.
Times of India wrote:DNA report helps nail 2 accused 2 Dec 2005
NEW Delhi: Relying on a DNA test performed on a piece of evidence collected from the body of Australian tourist Dawn Emilie Griggs, a city court has framed charges of gangrape, in addition to murder, against two taxi drivers arrested for killing her in March last year.
Additional sessions judge D K Saini has framed charges of gangrape against Jyotish Prasad and Ashish, the two accused taxi drivers in the Australian's murder. Senior public prosecutor S C Sharma said that the DNA test report confirmed the woman was gangraped by the two accused. "The DNA report received recently analysed the semen collected from the victim's body and it confirmed the accused sexually assaulted her before killing her," he said.
Griggs had arrived at the IGI Airport at about 1.50 am on a Cathay Pacific flight on March 17 last year. She travelled from Australia via Hong Kong. The prosecution said that Ashish joined Jyotish Prasad in his pre-paid taxi minutes after Griggs had hired it to take her to Karol Bagh. After a brief discussion between the two accused, Prasad turned the taxi towards Shahbad Mohammadpur instead.
The two apparently drove on for about 200 meters and then allegedly attacked Griggs, gagging and strangulating her with a piece of cloth, at about 3 am. To make identification difficult, they [repeatedly] stabbed Griggs on the forehead, above her right eye with a screwdriver. Her belongings were checked and then discarded another 200 meters away in a dry well, the prosecution said.
Her body was spotted by villagers around noon and they called the police. Other than Griggs's belongings, investigators found the receipt of Rs 250 which the accused got from the pre-paid taxi stand.
Griggs had come to India to visit the Brahmakumari Ashram in Mount Abu. She had reportedly been associated with the organisation for over 20 years and had visited India at least five times earlier. She had also authored a book and was working as an educationist in Australia. The prosecution had initially said that the investigators faced difficulty in identifying the Australian's valuables.
A formal request had to be sent to the Australian embassy seeking details of the valuables Griggs was carrying. The robbed items recovered from the assailants were then matched with the list of items she was carrying. The police recovered Rs 5,400 and Australian $ 260 from Ashish. He had buried his loot in the ground near his house.
The last one sounds like a badly made up police statement.
'I brutally killed her and regret now' (Tushar Srivastava/Express News Service @ ExpressIndia)
New Delhi, March 18: Jyotish Prashad, who is alleged to have murdered Australian national Dawn Enelie Griggs, says he is repenting his crime. He was speaking to Delhi Newsline, hours after his arrest. He recalled that Dawn had to go to Karol Bagh but ‘‘I instead took her to the nearby jungles.’’
‘‘On reaching the place, I put a cloth around her face, and as she resisted stabbed her with a screw driver,’’ said Prashad. ‘‘I first strangled her and in between stabbed her in the face. The only reason I killed her was because she would have named me. She resisted but I overpowered her.’’
‘‘I took her luggage and threw it inside an empty well but kept her purse with me. I washed myself and removed the blood stains on my clothes and then returned to the taxi stand at the airport,’’ Prashad said.