Gurdeep Garcha K.C. and Curtis Myrie are defending a Smethwick man charged with the murder of a 24 year old DPD driver, who was beaten to death whilst out making deliveries in Shrewsbury in August 2023.
The defendant is charged alongside four other men. It is the prosecution case that the defendants hatched a plan to attack the deceased because of violence that had occurred at a Kabaddi festival in Derby the day before. It is said that the defendants believed that the deceased was connected to that violence and had decided to exact revenge. Enquiries were made as to the deceased’s work pattern and delivery route and two car loads of men went to the location to lie in wait for the deceased. When he arrived to make his deliveries, he was savagely attacked with a variety of weapons including an axe, a golf club, a metal bar, a cricket bat and a hockey stick. Having killed the deceased, the offenders left the scene in two vehicles.
The defendant denies being part of any plan to assault the deceased and denies having participated in any joint enterprise.
The defendant, represented by Gurdeep Garcha K.C. leading Curtis Myrie – instructed by Gurdeep Singh of Hine Solicitors, is being tried at Stafford Crown Court. The trial is expected to last 6 weeks.