Southall gang rivalry behind Sikh man’s death

ATTACKERS WHO USED ‘SHOCKING VIOLENCE’ SET TO BE SENTENCED

FIVE men who violently at­tacked a rival with baseball bats, knives and swords are set to be sentenced this week.

Amandeep Sandhu, 30, and Ravinder Singh-Shergil, 31, were both found guilty of the murder of 33-year-old Sukhjinder Singh, also known as Gurinder Singh, from South­all, last Wednesday (13).

Two other men, Visha Soba, 30, and Kuldeep Dhillon, 26, were found guilty of Singh’s manslaughter.

A fifth man, Palwinder Multani, 37, pleaded guilty last November to manslaughter and assisting an offender.

Singh was set upon in July 2016 in an attack that includ­ed weapons such as knives, swords and baseball bats.

He was found with stab in­juries and died the next morning. A post-mortem confirmed his death was caused by multiple stab wounds.

In August 2016, following extensive investigation, de­tectives obtained a warrant allowing them entry to a unit at a west London storage fa­cility. Inside the unit, officers found several items that in­cluded swords, a machete, a baseball bat and a crowbar.

Many of the items, includ­ing clothing, had blood on them. The men were linked to the items using forensic analysis, including Sandhu’s DNA which was forensically linked to a balaclava.

It is alleged the attack was due to a rivalry that existed between Singh and a group of men from the Sikh commu­nity. The feud had apparently existed from 2013, although it escalated in 2016 when Singh allegedly boasted about an assault he had committed on Dhillon at a religious festival in Birmingham.

Detective Inspector James Stevenson, from Homicide and Major Crime Command, said the men used a “shock­ing” level of violence to exact their revenge on Singh at the culmination of a feud.

However, he added that al­though the five men had been convicted, it was not the end of the case.

“There are more individu­als we are seeking in connec­tion with this brutal killing and I would urge anyone with information to come forward,” Stevenson said.

“We are determined to find the individuals who took part in the attack. We know it will not bring back Gurinder back, but it will go some way in bringing a degree of com­fort to his family and friends, knowing all those involved have been brought to justice.”

Multani was due to be sen­tenced on Thursday (21). The other men are expected to be sentenced the following day.