About her Bail Hearing ...

Amarjit Lally is a short heavy-set woman with a thick mane of long dark hair loosely tied in the back.

The 45-year-old Surrey woman leaned against the glass that surrounded the prisoner's box to better hear a translator explain the decision to allow her to go free on $100,000 bail until she stands trial for attempting to arrange the murders of two people.

She was also ordered to turn her passport over to the Delta police Department.

Details of the Wednesday afternoon bail hearing in Surrey Provincial Court are covered by a court-ordered ban on publication that forbids reporting evidence presented during the hearing.

However, the ban does not apply to the case of her husband, who is charged with spousal assault, and who appeared in court after his wife.

He will be allowed to return to the family home because she has now been ordered to live elsewhere.

Outside court, Lally's lawyer Russ Chamberlain compared the case to "The Night of the Iguana" the Tennessee Williams short story and play that features a desperate woman driven to desperate acts.

"I've never dealt with a case such as this in my 42 years of practice," Chamberlain said.

He said his client was in crisis, with a husband accused of abusing her and financial difficulties.

"She felt she had no [other] place to turn to and she turned to the wrong place," Chamberlain told reporters

"She was not a woman who was herself."

Lally will return to court April 21.

The DPD learned about the murder-for-hire scheme in January of this year.

The intended victims, who knew Lally, were notified and protective measures were put in place during the course of the investigation, police said.

Lally has been charged with two counts of counselling another person to commit an indictable offence.

Hmm vichari indeed, but not the way to do it
but fer vi easy for me too say.
Complicated.

as if they wud do tht.