Gang gets life for DPD driver axe killing
Four men who beat a DPD delivery driver to death after ambushing him have been jailed for life for his murder.
Aurman Singh, 23, was struck with an axe, a golf club, a wooden stave, a metal club, a hockey stick, a shovel, a cricket bat, and a knife during the fatal attack in Shrewsbury last August.
Arshdeep Singh, 24, and Jagdeep Singh, 23 from Dudley and Shivdeep Singh, 27 and Manjot Singh, 24, from Smethwick were all told they will serve at least 28 years in prison.
A fifth man, Sukhmandeep Singh, 24, from Peterborough, was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter.
The judge at Stafford Crown Court, Kristina Montgomery KC described it as "an attack of horrifying brutality" and "a very public execution".
She said it had been "an attack plainly intended to kill him" and Mr Singh had been left to die at the side of the road.
Det Ch Insp Mark Bellamy from West Mercia Police said: "The level of violence used in this attack was quite shocking."
Four other men believed to have been involved in the fatal attack on Mr Singh, who was based at a DPD depot in Stoke-on-Trent, are still at large, police have said.
A statement from the victim's mother, Kuljit Kaur, was read out before sentences were passed.
In it she said: "I felt as though my very soul had been torn from my body, replaced by an unending ache of sorrow.”
She described him as "a beacon of love, kindness, and selflessness".
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