Five men who used a multitude of weapons that included knives, swords and baseball bats to commit a brutal attack on a rival have been convicted at the Old Bailey following the conclusion of a trial on Wednesday, 13 June.
Amandeep Sandhu, 30 and Ravinder Singh-Shergil, 31 were found guilty of the murder of 33-year-old Sukhjinder Singh, also known as Gurinder Singh from Southall. Two other men, Visha Soba, 30 and Kuldeep Dhillon, 26 were found guilty of Gurinder's manslaughter.
Dhillon was also found guilty of witness intimidation; Soba and Sandhu found guilty of assisting an offender.
A fifth man, Palwinder Multani, 37, pleaded guilty on 10 November 2017 to manslaughter and assisting an offender.
Multani was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Thursday, 21 June; the other four were sentenced on Friday, 22 June.
The court heard that as far back as August 2013 there was a rivalry that existed between the victim and a group of men within the Sikh community. The rivalry escalated in July 2016 when it surfaced that Gurinder had been boasting about an assault he had committed on Dhillon at a religious festival in Birmingham. Associates of Dhillon wanted revenge.
On Saturday, 30 July 2016 Gurinder was ambushed and violently attacked in Spikes Bridge Road, Southall by a group of men with various weapons that included knives, swords and baseball bats. The men chased, beat up and stabbed Mr Singh a number of times.
