Three men have been jailed for a motorcycle robbery which resulted in the death of their friend.
All four were at Barr Beacon Park in Great Barr on 27 June 2019 where a 31-year-old motorcyclist was pushed off his bike and assaulted.
A 19-year-old made off on the Honda CBR600, but the bike was involved in a head-on collision on Beacon Road, Pheasey, just minutes later and the rider sadly died at the scene.
The other three had made their getaway in a Ford Fiesta and, after stopping at the collision site, were seen running back to the car before emergency services arrived.
But two, Nirvair Lall and Inderjot Singh, returned sometime later and were pointed out to police by a witness. The pair were arrested along with Aaron Dhaliwal, the registered keeper of the car.
Dhaliwal, aged 22 from Himley Road, Dudley, admitted his involvement in the robbery, and later pleaded guilty. Lall, aged 21 from Amberley Green, and Singh, aged 21 from Farran Way, both in Great Barr, refused to comment in the interview and a trial was set for December 2020.
Singh changed his plea to guilty on the first day of the first trial on 14 December at the new Nightingale Court − a temporary facility set up in Birmingham’s Repertory Theatre during the pandemic. After five days Lall was found guilty.
The three men were sentenced today (Friday, 12 March) with Lall being jailed for three years and six months, Singh to three years and one month, and Dhaliwal for two years and four months.
The judge described Lall as ‘cold and heartless’ after he left the scene ‘clearly knowing it was serious as someone was delivering CPR’, adding that was in stark contrast to the victim, who despite having been beaten and robbed, still asked a witness about the condition of the deceased.
‘The victim showed more concern, than you did for your own friend,’ the judge said.
Detective Sergeant Kerry Haywood said: “This was a tragic outcome for a young man to lose his life even though a crime had been committed.
“His friends not only have to serve a prison sentence but have to live with the circumstances of his death.”