On 2nd December Wednesday, a 45-year-old construction company boss murdered his wife with the help of a female accomplice who was recorded on CCTV, Birmingham Crown Court heard. Prosecutors alleged that 38-year-old Sarbjit Kaur, was strangled by her husband, Gurpreet Singh, in their Wolverhampton apartment in 2018. But the husband has denied murder.
Jurors were also told an unidentified woman went into the home of the accused, just minutes after Gurpreet Singh entered the Wolverhampton property according to Birmingham Mail.
Prosecutor David Mason QC said the death was at first thought to have been the result of a "burglary gone wrong" because "the house [the couple] lived in had been turned over and this defendant seemed fairly plausible".
While Mr Singh's own CCTV was disabled, the prosecutor explained that the defendant did not know that a house opposite had CCTV covering his driveway which reportedly showed the arrival of a woman who was not mentioned by Mr Singh in his account to officers. In his statement, he stated it was just he and his wife at home when he left for work. It left "two possibilities", according to the prosecution.
"Firstly, [Mr Singh] is not telling the truth and another person has come to the house and been there for nearly an hour, no doubt, we would say, helping him to kill his wife.
"Or someone else has been let into the house by his wife without him knowing, while he has been in the house, and that unknown person has then murdered his wife and ransacked the house in just four minutes between him going to work and her leaving the house after he left.
"The first possibility makes sense and the other is impossible."
The trial continues.
