Two more guilty of DPD driver murder

Two more men have been found guilty of murdering a DPD delivery driver in Shrewsbury.

Aurman Singh, 23, from Smethwick, was attacked with weapons including an axe, a golf club and a shovel as he was delivering parcels for DPD in the Coton Hill area in 2023.

Mehakdeep Singh, aged 23, and Sehajpal Singh, aged 25, who were arrested in Austria, were found guilty of his murder on Monday following a trial at Stafford Crown Court.

Last March five other men were convicted over his death.

Mehakdeep Singh and Sehajpal Singh are due to be sentenced at the same court on 11 April.

Prosecutors said it was unclear what motivated the attack, but Aurman Singh died at the scene on Berwick Avenue in August 2023.

The court heard he had been tracked by the gang on his round.

West Mercia Police said Mehakdeep Singh and Sehajpal Singh fled the scene in a white Mercedes Benz.

It was later found dumped on Kynaston Road in Shrewsbury. and the two men had called a taxi, which took them to Shrewsbury Railway Station where they got a train to Wolverhampton before fleeing abroad several days later.

They were located in Austria and arrested on 20 May 2024 at an address in Hohenzell.

They were then later charged with Aurman Singh's murder.

The previous five to be convicted were:

• Arshdeep Singh, 24 of Shaw Road, Tipton, Dudley - guilty of murder

• Jagdeep Singh, 23, of Goodrich Mews, Dudley - guilty of murder

• Shivdeep Singh, 27, of Greenfield Road, Smethwick - guilty of murder

• Manjot Singh, 24, also of Greenfield Road, Smethwick - guilty of murder

• Sukhmandeep Singh, 24, from Paynels, in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough - guilty of manslaughter.

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