{"id":4498,"date":"2010-03-04T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/03\/04\/four-charged-with-shopkeepers-murder\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:30:03","slug":"four-charged-with-shopkeepers-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/04\/four-charged-with-shopkeepers-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Four charged with shopkeeper\u2019s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Man, 20, and three 17-year-olds charged with murder of Gurmail Singh<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"268\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/GurmailSingh_180x2321.jpg\"\/>POLICE have charged four people with the murder of Huddersfield shopkeeper Gurmail Singh who was bludgeoned to death during a robbery at his store.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Muawaz Khalid, 20, and three 17-year-old boys are due to appear before <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Huddersfield Magistrates today. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>West Yorkshire Police said all four men were charged with Mr Singh\u2019s murder last night. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Singh, 63, was attacked at his shop in Cowcliffe on 20 February.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He received serious head injuries when he was struck at least nine times with a weapon, believed to be a hammer, and died in hospital early the following morning.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A force spokesman said: &#8220;Last night, three 17-year-old males and a 20-year-old man, all from the Huddersfield area, were charged with murder and robbery.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Senior investigating officer Detective Superintendent Dave Pervin thanked the whole community in Huddersfield for the support and assistance given in the investigation.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Mr Singh was a well-respected shopkeeper who many have described as a pillar of the community.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, 20, and three 17-year-olds charged with murder of Gurmail Singh POLICE have charged four people with the murder of Huddersfield shopkeeper Gurmail Singh who was bludgeoned to death during a robbery at his store. &#13; Muawaz Khalid, 20, and three 17-year-old boys are due to appear before &#13; Huddersfield Magistrates today. &#13; West Yorkshire [&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-4498","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\/4498","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=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/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=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}