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Brit-Indian Sikh shopkeeper was battered to death with wine bottle, court told | Indian origin shopkeeper, Gurmail Singh, was battered to death in his own shop by a gang of robbers in Britain's
Cowcliffe area of Huddersfield, after he denied giving away his 'hard-earned money' to them, West Yorkshire prosecutor Adrian Waterman told Bradford Crown Court
on Thursday. "Gurmail Singh did not meekly hand over his property, his hard-earned
money. When he resisted the robbers they used serious violence on him, grabbing
the nearest weapon to hand, which happened to be bottles of wine he sold in the
shop," the Daily Mail quoted prosecutor Waterman, as saying. "He was hit on the
head. It was that which caused his death," Waterman told the jury of nine woman
and three men and added: "This was a robbery gone wrong." The alleged members
of the gang, Umare Aslam, 20, Muawaz Khalid, also 20, 18-year-old Shoaib Khan,
Nabeel Shafi, 18, and Rehman Afzal, 18, all from Huddersfield, have denied the
murder charge. Waterman told the jury how smokers outside a pub opposite the shop
realised something was wrong when they saw two of the robbers - Afzal and Aslam
- walk and then run from the scene. One of them trapped the robbers inside by
holding the door closed as they tried to smash their way out. Two other members
of the public tackled the pair when they eventually fled through the shop's back
door, but both got away. The court heard that one of the accused, Khan, had not
been in the shop because there was no room for him in the taxi that had taken
the rest of the gang to the scene. But Waterman said: "It is the crown's case
that each of these defendants was, at the very least, involved in a joint enterprise.
They were in it together and each was responsible, criminally, for his death."
Singh was allegedly attacked at about 8.30pm on February 20 and died the following
day. Sixty-three-year-old Gurmail Singh had come to England from India in 1963
and raised his family in Huddersfield. |
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