{"id":3581,"date":"2008-12-23T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/12\/23\/two-jailed-over-oap-robbery-killing\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:29:33","slug":"two-jailed-over-oap-robbery-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/23\/two-jailed-over-oap-robbery-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Two jailed over OAP robbery killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Duo jailed for total of 16 years<\/h3>\n<div><strong>TWO men have been jailed for killing a frail pensioner during a robbery at her Birmingham flat.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mohammed Iftab, 25, and Waseem Shabir, 23, both of Aston, Birmingham, had earlier pleaded guilty to manslaughter of Mohinder Kaur at Birmingham Crown Court. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mrs Kaur, 81, was found dead at her Kings Heath flat in August 2007.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Iftab was sentenced to nine-and-half years and Shabir was given seven years at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The court was told the two men had brought adhesive tape from a DIY store before they made their way to Mrs Kaur\u2019s flat first-floor property in Nutgrove Close on 25 August last year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>They then used the name of Mrs Kaur\u2019s grandson to trick their way into the flat before they overpowered her and wrapped the adhesive tape 11 times around her mouth. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>After ransacking the flat and making off with gold jewellery, Iftab and Shabir left Mrs Kaur on the floor and struggling for breath.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>She was discovered dead 48 hours later by her nephew. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Det Ch Insp Rich Baker, of West Midlands Police, said: &#8220;Throughout this investigation we had the full support of Mohinder&#8217;s family and our thoughts go out to them.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duo jailed for total of 16 years TWO men have been jailed for killing a frail pensioner during a robbery at her Birmingham flat. &#13; Mohammed Iftab, 25, and Waseem Shabir, 23, both of Aston, Birmingham, had earlier pleaded guilty to manslaughter of Mohinder Kaur at Birmingham Crown Court. &#13; Mrs Kaur, 81, was found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}