Derby Muslim Gang Attacks Sikh Man

Race hate fear over attacks on Sikhs

By Nick Britten
Telegraph Media Group

POLICE and community leaders say they are struggling to contain racial tensions in Derby after a young Sikh was badly hurt when ambushed by a gang of Muslims carrying hammers and crowbars.

Harjit Singh Sandhu, 22, was in hospital with a broken leg, ankle and nose and cuts to his face and head after being attacked for 20 minutes in the Normanton area on Monday.

About 50 Sikh youths went on to the streets to protest at the rising number of assaults by Muslim youths, but were dispersed by police. A fortnight ago Rhadika Shukla, 15, suffered a fractured skull when a Muslim gang rampaged through her school, attacking pupils and staff with hammers and axes and smashing windows.

A group called the Youth Muslims Organisation has been seen stirring trouble and gangs have been spotted roaming the streets chanting Osama bin Laden's name since September 11. The authorities fear an explosion of violence as Sikhs and Hindus retaliate.

Harninder Singh, a close friend of Mr Sandhu, said: "It was a totally unprovoked attack and the worst thing was he ran into a few Muslim shops for help and received none. When they had finished he was absolutely covered in blood. I was with him last Wednesday when Muslim lads mounted the pavement and tried to run him over."

As appeals went out for calm, Gurmel Bolla, the vice-president of the Sikh temple in Derby, said community leaders were trying to keep a lid on the simmering violence, but were struggling. An emergency steering group has been convened for the communities, the police and the local council.

Police said: "Community leaders are doing everything they can." Two men had been arrested and were being questioned about the assault on Mr Sandhu, they added.
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Black Youths Racially Attack Female Punjabi-Sikh Student

Black Youths Racially Attack Punjabi-Sikh Student

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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007

A young Punjabi-Sikh student who was racially attacked by a mob of girls on a bus recently accused the driver and other passengers of turning a blind eye to her ordeal.

Ramanpreet Kaur Bhalla said her pleas for help were ignored as she was left at the mercy of the teenage racist thugs who dragged her from the vehicle and laid into her.

The 19-year-old student said the experience had "shattered her faith in humanity" and left her scared to travel on public transport.

Travel chiefs promised an urgent investigation. Footage from on-board CCTV cameras has been recovered and handed to police.

The incident has raised the issue about whether members of the public should step in to help fellow citizens defend themselves from violence, over recent months there have been many such attacks on members of the Punjabi-Sikh community.

Ramanpreet said: "I was so shocked no-one wanted to help me. They could all see what was happening to me but stood by and did nothing.
"We're all human and should help each other out."

She added: "Because of what happened, I can't go back on the bus any more."
The A-Level student, who plans to study psychology, was travelling home on the number 11 bus when the attack happened.

She said a gang of eight black girls started causing trouble with other passengers, forcing the driver to stop the bus at the Greenhill Road junction on Rookery Road, Handsworth, Birmingham.

As Ramanpreet joined passengers to get off the bus the gangs of girls barged into her.

"One of them spat in my face," said Ramanpreet, who lives in Handsworth with her parents.

"They grabbed my hair and dragged me off the bus and onto the pavement. They kicked me and slapped me.

"I was scared. They were in a group and I was on my own. No one did anything to help me, I couldn't believe it.

"They could have had a knife. I could have been stabbed. "I was shouting 'Help, please, someone help me'. But the bus driver and passengers just stood there. No one lifted a finger."

The gang eventually fled with Ramanpreet's purse containing cash and valuables.

A spokesman for Travel West Midlands said: "We have identified the bus and driver, who has now been interviewed.

"It is clear there was a scuffle and there was little support coming from other passengers.

"We are still actively investigating the incident and will be supporting the police in their investigation."

Sikh community leader left blind by chemicals describes attacker

Sikh left blind by chemicals describes attacker

By John Roberts

A SIKH community leader who was left blinded when corrosive chemicals were thrown into his face has described his mystery attacker to police.

Father-of four Amarjit Singh Uppal 49, could be left blinded for life by the attack, which happened close to his home as he was getting out of a car in Carr Manor Road, Moortown in Leeds.

A man approached him mixing a chemical solution which he threw in Mr Uppal's face, blinding him.

Det Insp Adrian Taylor, leading the investigation, said last week that it is be-lieved to have been an unprovoked but targeted attack.

Now Mr Uppal, who is the assistant general secretary at the Sikh temple in Chapeltown Road, Leeds, has spoken to detectives for the first time to describe the man who carried out the attack last Tuesday at 8.30pm.

He has described the culprit as a West Indian male, of medium skin tone, 25 to 30 years old, 5ft 5in, of medium build.

He had short dark hair and wore light brown trousers, a shirt with a squared pattern and a light brown long- sleeved jacket.

The substance was so corrosive it damaged the paintwork on two cars but police do not yet know what it was.

Forensic examination of the scene is continuing and samples of the solution are being tested at a laboratory in London.

Mr Uppal has been described as respected family man who carried out a lot of voluntary work for his Sikh temple in Leeds. He is still blind from the incident and is feared to have lost his sight permanently.

Anyone with information on the attack or on the person responsible should contact Stainbeck police on 0113 2413259 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Last Updated: 09 April 2007

Perverted English man arranged brutal murder of his Sikh wife

Marsh - womaniser and alcoholic

Serial womaniser Stephen Marsh had spent years searching for a lover who would indulge his secret longing to use knives in sado-masochistic sex games.

When he started sleeping with Rebecca Harris, a fellow worker at the Conduit 118 call-centre in Swansea, he finally met a willing partner.

Their nine-month affair was the last in a long line he had conducted behind his wife Jaspal's back.

Born in the Penlan area of Swansea, he moved to London in his late teens and it was there, in 1990, he met Jaspal, while working for the Ministry of Defence.

She was from a traditional Sikh family and relatives were initially opposed to the relationship.

Even so, they married in 1993 and set out in business together, running an off-licence in Brighton. Sometime after they joined Whitbread, managing pubs in London and later back in Marsh's home city of Swansea.

Jaspal was only the second woman he had dated. Giving evidence to the jury, he admitted that when he attracted the attention of women, he found it hard to resist.

Jaspal Marsh was stabbed 16 times in her bedroom

"I was immature. I accepted the attention with glee," he told the court.

His womanising continued when the couple moved to Swansea and bought their house in Gorseinon.

The jury heard evidence from three former lovers, including teenage mother Michelle Hales.

Prosecuting barrister Huw Davies said Marsh had raised the idea of using knives in sex games with each of them but all had turned him down or laughed the suggestion off.

"He had been trying for years to find a woman who he could interest in using knives to cut one another up as part of a programme of sexual activity," said the barrister in his closing address.

Drink problem

On day one of the trial, the jury was shown a video, recorded by Marsh on his mobile phone, of him cutting Harries with the kitchen knife she would subsequently use to stab his wife.

Their affair was common knowledge among colleagues where they worked and colleagues of Jaspal's at Admiral Insurance told how she had begun to suspect her husband's infidelity.

Marsh and Harris spent most of the week before his wife's murder in each other's company. Once he and his wife had left for work, he would sneak back to his home with Rebecca and the two would have sex in the bedroom where Jaspal was later killed.

But one element of Marsh's life of which his wife was painfully aware was his 20-year drink problem.

He admitted in court that he would rise at 4.50am each morning and after walking his dog would take three cans of Strongbow from their fridge which he would drink before leaving the house.

He would drink another before arriving at his office in Orchard Street in Swansea and his morning, lunchtime and afternoon breaks were spent in the Kings Arms on High Street.

Marsh's lover, Rebecca Harris, claimed he had brainwashed her

When not accompanied by Harris, he preferred to drink alone with his head buried in his newspaper.

He told the court he needed the alcohol to give him the confidence in work to do his job - which involved taking directory inquiry calls from Vodafone customers.

Although he would drink over 10 pints a day, very few people had ever seen him appear drunk or slur his speech.

Other than womanising and drinking, Marsh's main interest in life was supporting Swansea City.

He would regularly go to home games and occasionally travel away - once taking Harris with him when they stayed in a hotel.

It was through football that he had his only previous brush with the law.

There is not any companionship at all What Jaspal Marsh told colleagues

In 1989 he was fined £40 for using threatening and abusive language at a match, but apart from that he had no previous convictions.

Prosecutor Huw Davies told the court that to many his life must have seemed "blissful".

Jaspal would take care of his every need, washing, ironing and laying out his clothes in the morning before he went to work.

She was the main breadwinner and would even buy the cider he drank in such quantities at the supermarket for him.

He would rarely go out in the evenings, although towards the end of the marriage the court heard evidence that their marriage was strained.

From February 2006 she was confiding in colleagues that she was unhappy at home.

"There is not any companionship at all," she told one. She and Marsh were "like ships that pass in the night" she told another.

Mr Davies told the jury that in the weeks before her death she had even raised the idea with friends of getting a divorce.

But she was brutally stabbed to death before she could take it any further.

Sikh man stabbed to death at Ilford bus stop

Man stabbed to death at Ilford bus stop

By Guardian-series

Ilford stabbing victim Jaspreet Singh

A MAN has been arrested and charged with murder after a 25-year-old man was stabbed and killed in the early hours of Saturday morning in Ilford.

Jaspreet Singh, 25, was attacked shortly before 1am in Chapel Road and taken by ambulance to King George's Hospital in Goodmayes where he died.

Police say that Mr Singh and a friend had stepped off a 123 bus outside Greggs the bakers in Ilford town centre and walked to a bus stop in Chapel Road where they planned to get a night bus.

While at the stop he got involved in an argument with another man who stabbed him before running off. A post mortem gave cause of death as a single stab wound to the heart.

The officer leading the investigation, DCI John MacDonald from the homicide and serious crime command said: "We believe that there were people at the bus stop who witnessed the altercation who then got on the 369 bus at around 1am on Saturday, March 31. We need these people to come forward.

"We also know that the suspect ran off into Clements Road. It is here that he may have bumped into a young man and woman who were out together for the night. We would urge them to speak to us. The woman is described as light skinned, with long dark hair. She wore a blue dress and knee-high dark boots.

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"The man is described as having short dark hair, wearing a white long sleeved top and blue jeans."

"We previously appealed for the victim's friend, whom we believe was at the bus stop at the time of the murder, to come forward. Police have now spoken with him."

A 19-year-old Ilford man appeared at Redbridge magistrates court this morning charged with the murder of Mr Singh. He was remanded in custody and committed to appear at the Old Bailey on July 9.

The stabbing took place just yards from the underpass where Ilford teenager Kashif Mahmood was fatally stabbed in September 2005.

Anyone with information about the latest attack is asked to contact the incident room at Hertford House, Barking on 8345 3985, or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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A Black teenager was tonight charged with the MURDER of a 25-year-old man stabbed to death at a bus stop.

Kamuzu Munroe, 19, is due to appear in court charged with the murder of Jaspreet Singh in Ilford, east London.

Mr Singh was stabbed in the early hours of Saturday morning at a bus stop in Chapel Road, Ilford.

He had got off a bus with a friend and walked to another bus stop nearby, hoping to catch a 396 night bus when he was attacked.

Jobless Munroe, of Ilford, is due to appear in custody at Redbridge Magistrates Court on Monday