4 found guilty of hacking Sikh to death in UK

London, June 14

Four Indian-origin gang members have been found guilty of hacking a 28-year-old Sikh man to death two years ago as revenge for illicit affair with one of their wives here in the UK.

Gurinder Singh cried out for help as the masked gang chopped off his fingers with knives and swords and went on to attack him with a wooden club and a hammer in Southall, west London, in July 2016.

At the end of a nine-week trial in the Old Bailey court in London this week, Amandeep Sandhu, 30, and Ravinder Singh-Shergil, 31, were convicted of murder.

Vishal Soba, 30, was cleared of murder, but found guilty of manslaughter and assisting an offender. Kuldeep Dhillon, 27, was also cleared of murder by the jury but convicted of manslaughter and intimidation. Judge Christopher Moss remanded the killers in custody until sentencing on June 22.

Gurinder Singh suffered 48 injuries on his head and body, and two of his fingers were recovered from the scene of the attack the following day. — PTI