{"id":5011,"date":"2010-12-09T11:37:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T11:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/12\/09\/life-sentence-for-southall-factory-murderer\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:49:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:49:51","slug":"life-sentence-for-southall-factory-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/09\/life-sentence-for-southall-factory-murderer\/","title":{"rendered":"Life sentence for Southall factory murderer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Victim was father-of-two Gurmukh Singh Chahal<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"235\" height=\"231\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ChahalSingh_232x180.jpg\"\/>A TELFORD man has been jailed for life for murdering his work colleague at a factory in Southall.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Balraj Singh, 44, stabbed father-of-two Gurmukh Singh Chahal at a business unit in Southall on 9 April.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Singh, of Weavers Rise, Ketley Bank, Telford, was sentenced to life-time imprisonment and told he would serve a minimum of 20 years.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>No motive for the killing was ever established.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>During a one-week trial, the court heard that police were called to reports of a stabbing at Mac-RK Engineering factory, on the Bridge Road Industrial Estate.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nOfficers and paramedics rushed to the scene and found Mr Chahal suffering a single stab wound to the lower chest. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>His injury was so severe that emergency heart treatment had to be performed at the scene. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Despite efforts to save Mr Chahal, he was pronounced dead at the scene.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSingh was arrested at the scene and later charged with murder and remanded into custody. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A post-mortem examination concluded that Mr Chahal died from a stab wound to the chest.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking after the verdict Detective Inspector Steve Smith said: \u201cThe evidence against Balraj Singh was overwhelming. The Metropolitan Police service is committed and determined to ensure that people like Singh are held to account for their actions. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cGurmukh Chahal leaves behind a young widow, a five-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son. I only hope that today\u2019s verdict and sentence brings some comfort to the family and friends of Gurmukh Chahal.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victim was father-of-two Gurmukh Singh Chahal A TELFORD man has been jailed for life for murdering his work colleague at a factory in Southall. &#13; Balraj Singh, 44, stabbed father-of-two Gurmukh Singh Chahal at a business unit in Southall on 9 April. &#13; Singh, of Weavers Rise, Ketley Bank, Telford, was sentenced to life-time imprisonment [&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-5011","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\/5011","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=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/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=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}