Gurdeep Garcha K.C. is defending a Wolverhampton youth charged with the robbery and murder of a 17 year old, who was stabbed to death in a park in March 2024.
The defendant is charged alongside another youth. It is the prosecution case that the defendants lured the victim and his friend to West Park, Wolverhampton on a pretext. Once in the park, the defendants are both alleged to have robbed the youths of their mobile phones and thereafter produced machetes. In the course of the ensuing altercation, one of the youths was fatally stabbed in the chest.
The defendant denies being part of any plan to rob the youths and denies having participated in any joint enterprise to kill or injure the youths.
The defendant, represented by Gurdeep Garcha K.C. leading Kevin Metzger of Great James Street Chambers – instructed by Sadia Mahmood of M & N Solicitors – is being tried at Wolverhampton Crown Court. The trial is expected to last 3 weeks.
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