"I am a broken father who has lost a loving daughter," Jairam Singh told the court last week at a sentencing hearing for one of the men accused in his daughter's killing.

An aspiring nurse, Amretta Singh was hit by bullets fired through the front door of her family's Sunforest Drive home. She and her brothers had run for safety after being followed home from a nightclub, but the bullets pierced the front door and hit Singh as she stood in the front hallway. She died a short time later in hospital.

It was a crime that shocked and outraged the city, and the quite neighbourhood where it happened.

The man police believe fired the bullets has yet to be caught. Police say Vijayarajah (Vijay) Manickavasagar, 26, of Toronto, known as Bullet, fled to Sri Lanka soon after.

Mr. Justice Bruce Durno will decide Tuesday how long Navaneethan Kunananthan, 28, of Toronto must serve in prison for his role in the shooting. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter recently and a sentencing hearing was held last week.

Kunananthan has admitted to a "prolonged stare" at the Singhs after a minor bump or look in the Calypso Hut II in March 2004, and to supplying a hooded sweatshirt worn as a disguise by the shooter.

Crown John Paton asked Durno to sentence Kunananthan to four years in prison, minus 10 months of pre-trial custody, while defence lawyer Steve Bernstein asked for 34 months minus the pre-trial custody.

Singh's father is as devastated today as he was more than four years ago when his daughter was killed, court heard.

"In this family there are no more happy birthdays, no more Fathers Day, no more Mothers Day."

He said he wakes up in the morning and his pillow is soaked from crying all night.

He begged for help to deal with the pain.

"My house is broken. My family is broken. My wife has ended up in a psychiatric ward in hospital," he said, reading from his written victim impact statement.

He told court he was brought up in a very religious family, but, "When I lost my daughter, I was devastated. I looked up and I said 'There is no God.'"

Kunananthan stood in court Friday and quietly said he was sorry to the family.