{"id":420978,"date":"2025-09-13T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420978\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:35:13","slug":"surjit-singh-jailed-for-killing-mother-at-birmingham-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420978\/","title":{"rendered":"Surjit Singh jailed for killing mother at Birmingham home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Surjit Singh, aged 39, told a relative that he had attacked Mohinder Kaur, aged 76, at the family home on Clarence Road, Soho.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She phoned 999 after speaking to Singh at around 1pm on September 29 last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Minutes later, officers forced their way into her property and found her lying on the living room floor.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mohinder, in her 70s, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital but was sadly pronounced dead just before 11.30pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Singh had returned to the scene of the attack at around 3pm and was arrested by officers, who were still at the house.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While in custody, he said: &#8220;I didn\u2019t mean to do it. I just lost my head.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mohinder died as a result of injuries consistent with a number of blows, but it was not clear if a weapon was used or what the motive was.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Singh went on to plead guilty to murder and was jailed on Friday (September 12) at Birmingham Crown Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Det Insp Nick Barnes said: &#8220;This senseless killing has torn apart a family, and our thoughts remain with everyone affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surjit Singh, aged 39, told a relative that he had attacked Mohinder Kaur, aged 76, at the family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-420978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115196784346780965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}