Gurdeep Garcha K.C’s and Adam Western defend in Coventry ‘Body in a TV Box’ murder

Gurdeep Garcha K.C. and Adam Western are defending a Coventry woman charged with the murder of a 74 year old man whose badly injured body was found in a television box, in a shed in the Kersley area of Coventry.

The defendant is charged alongside a 17 year old youth. It is the prosecution case that the deceased was lured to the address on the promise of sexual activity as part of a plan to steal his bank cards and pin numbers. It is alleged that once the deceased arrived, matters did not go to plan and the defendants exploded into violence. The deceased was found to have a total of 55 external injuries. Having been killed his body was placed into a television box and the box was secreted in a nearby shed.

The defendant denies that she inflicted any violence upon the deceased and denies being part of a joint enterprise with the youth, who she asserts is wholly responsible for the killing.

The defendant, represented by Gurdeep Garcha K.C. leading Adam Western – instructed by Joanna Davidson-Edwards of Tuckers Solicitors (trading as Murray Brankin) is being tried at Warwick Crown Court. The trial is expected to last 4 weeks.

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