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A callous husband who pretended his wife had been killed in a burglary has been found guilty of her murder.
Sarbjit Kaur, 38, was found at her house in Rookery Lane, Wolverhampton, on 16 February 2018. She had been assaulted and dead for some time, West Midlands Police said.
Gurpreet Singh, 45, was convicted of murder following a retrial at Birmingham Crown Court.
He has been sentenced to life in prison and will serve a minimum of 19 years.
Supt Chris Mallett, of West Midlands Police, said: While the motivation of Sarbjit s murder is unclear, Singh is clearly a callous and calculating man with complete disregard for human life.
Opening the Crown’s case at the start of a retrial which began in December, David Mason QC said the CCTV system was not working at the home of Singh, whose first wife, Amandeep Kaur, died in India four years before the murder.
Mr Mason told the jury: “Although his own CCTV was disabled, he wasn’t to know that a house opposite his house had CCTV covering that house’s drive.
“It also just so happened to cover the front, or at least a good part of the front of this defendant’s house.
“What it also showed is that, a few minutes after Gurpreet Singh got home … an unknown person, who was wearing a parka with the hood up, approached his house and the gates which allowed access to the driveway and the house itself.
The boss of a concrete firm who used chilli powder to incapacitate his wife before strangling her to death and staging the scene as a botched burglary has been jailed for life.
Gurpreet Singh was jailed for a minimum of 19 years today after he was convicted of murdering Sarbjit Kaur, 38, at their marital home in Wolverhampton in 2018.
A mystery accomplice, thought to be Singh s mistresss, has escaped justice as she remains unknown to this day.
Successful seamstress Ms Kaur was found lying on the floor covered in chilli powder inside a workshop attached to her home in February 2018.
A trial heard how Singh, 43, allowed his two children to discover their stepmother s body when they arrived home together at around 4pm.
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